!! Non blocking IO !!

[Quinn Dunkan]

On 30 Sep 1999 12:37:42 GMT, Constantinos A. Kotsokalis
<C.Kotsokalis at ece.ntua.gr> wrote:
>If you mean flushing after every output operation (i.e. unbuffered
>I/O), then simply call python with the -u argument:
>
>python -u myprogram.py
>
>This should do the trick.

I've always wondered why we do things this way.  Why don't we have a
autoflush attribute on file objects to control this?