"fork and exit" needed?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

> If you run this
> 
>   import os,sys,time
>   print os.getpid()
>   sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w')
>   time.sleep(60)
> 
> It prints its pid.

and not only that, if you run

	print "world",
	print "hello"

it prints "hello world" in the wrong order!

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