output buffering--am I missing something obvious?

[Erik Max Francis]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

> ark Can someone please explain the following behavior?  Under Python
> 2.2.2
> ark and Solaris 2.8:
> 
> >>> import sys
> >>> sys.stdout.write("foo")
> >>> sys.stdout.flush()
> >>> sys.stdout.write("bar\n")
> >>> bar
> 
> Never mind -- I figured it out.  Apparently the interactive loop
> discards all pending output before reading the next input statement.

Weird, here's what I get on my Python 2.2.2 on Solaris 8 (which I built
from source):

>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout.write('foo')
foo>>> sys.stdout.flush()
>>> sys.stdout.write('bar\n')
bar

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