"print" strange with Sybase module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Erwin S. Andreasen wrote:
> AFAICS, there is no way to turn the buffering to be line-based on an existing
> file object (it might be an idea for a future release?). You could do
> something like:
>
> sys.stdout = os.fdopen(os.dup(sys.stdout.fileno()), 'w', 1)
>
> which would reopen standard output as a line-buffered (the 1) stream,
> i.e. every time you have written a full line to the file object, it's flushed
> -- just like when you run the program on the console.

here's a variant, which works for any kind of sys.stdout:

    class UnbufferedStream:
        def __init__(self, stream):
            self.stream = stream
        def write(self, data):
            self.stream.write(data)
            self.stream.flush()
        def __getattr__(self, attr):
            # delegate everything else
            return getattr(self.stream, attr)

    sys.stdout = UnbufferedStream(sys.stdout)

Cheers /F

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