setvbuf() ??

[Roland Schlenker]

Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> 
> I need to print a period on an xterm every few seconds to provide status to the
> user, I don't want to force a newline.  How do I turn off line buffering for
> standard out?

How about:

import sys

sys.stdout.write(".")
sys.stdout.flush()

Roland Schlenker