purging file buffers - to make new data be written to file

[Peter Hansen]

ddoc wrote:
> 
> Can I do that from within a python script, or do I have to give a command
> line argument to make Python start without buffers?
> 
> On Linux.  The program is to save a memo in a slightly organised format,
> but I find the file is not written until Python exits.

Can you post a code snippet that reproduces the problem?  Maybe
you just need to close() the file...