[Python-ideas] Pythonic buffering in Py3 print()

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>> So the keyword argument means
>> "do or don't call flush() method of the file."
> That's not clear from its name since the flushing behavior can depend on the underlying stream type. force_flush would be closer to the actual meaning of the param.

+0 for being able to write print("whatever", force_flush=True) instead
of having to do:

import sys # somewhere in the file
print("whatever")
sys.stdout.flush()

Cheers,
Nick.

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