[Moin-devel] Formatter Troubles

[Tim Bird]

--- Lele Gaifax <lele at seldati.it> wrote:
> >>>>> On 15 Oct 2002 15:11:03 -0500, Ken Kinder
> <kkinder at rackspace.com> said:
> 
>     KK> So, the problem is, I have text like
> 
>     KK> foo *bar*
> 
>     KK> What I get is:
> 
>     KK> <strong></strong>foo bar
> 
>     KK> Through debug variables, I've absolutely confirmed that
> strong
>     KK> is called to open and close before "bar" is sent to
> rawtext.
> 
>     KK> Why might this be? Are there any other pitfalls you can
> think
>     KK> of that are going to continue to bite me as a struggle
> mapping
>     KK> the way formatters work to the way building an XML file via
>     KK> DOM work?
> 
> This is the same thing that happens, in some circumstances, under
> PyApache. I guess it has something to do with the way moin emits
> its
> text, some time using sys.stdout.write, some time using print
> statements: some parts of moin replace sys.stdout to get the output
> of
> "subparts" (macros for example).
> 
> I've spent some time to track the problem, with out luck.

I'm just guessing, but maybe you need to flush whatever you're
writing to, right after your write:

sys.stdout.flush()

With all the streams being replaced and substituted, I wouldn't
be at all surprised to see stuff left in output buffers and not
making to the network socket in program write order.

Tim Bird

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