Exploring terminfo

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 1:36 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 16/01/21 7:33 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Starting in Python 3.<something>, python's stdio file objects are _not_
> > on top of the libc FILE streams: they're directly on top of the file
> > descriptor.
>
> This sounds like rather a bad situation, because it means that
> any C library using stdio is going to interact badly with Python
> stdio.
>
> Can something be done about this? Maybe Python stdio objects
> should flush all the C stdio streams before writing anything?
>

Surely it should be the other way around? If you use the C stdio
streams, flush them after use. Like with everything else that you
flush.

ChrisA