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

[Cameron Simpson]

On 11Jan2012 19:15, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
| On 1/11/2012 6:02 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| >Better if we only specify behaviour for True (flush now) and
| >None/default/missing (flush default) and make it slightly clear that
| >other values do not have defined behaviour.
| 
| That was the intent of my suggested doc rewording -- file controls
| flushing unless flush=True is given. What I wrote on the issue was a
| first try and I suspect that there are other and perhaps better
| concise wordings. Post one on the issue if you have one. (But
| writing in 'doc style' is not always easy ;-).

Do I comment here, or in #11633 (which is closed) or in #13761?
We seem to have multiple streams of discussion.

BTW, regarding #11633, I don't like your sentence:

  Use ``sys.stdout.flush()`` to ensure immediate appearance on a screen

Shouldn't that be "*file*.flush()" ? I would _not_ want to give a
shallow reader the idea that flushing stdout magicly sorts their
problems with a specific file. And I've seen that level of logical gap
in various questions on python-list (and elsewhere, of course).

I'd also change "ensure immediate appearance on a screen" to "ensure
immediate output, for example to ensure appearance on a screen".
Again, it changes the wording from "to perform this specific special
case call flush" to "calling flush does blah, for example to aid this
specific case".

Cheers,
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