circular references?

[Roy Smith]

nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) wrote:
> Perhaps there is a buffer like object that only gets flushed when
> a __del__ method is called.

Well, I figured it was something like that too, so I added an explicit 
call to flush().  Didn't help.  Maybe it's kind of like a toilet; when 
the pipe() is blocked, doing repeated flush()'s just makes a bigger mess 
:-)