print problem

[Rich Healey]

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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:15:11 -0300, pirata <pirata at mars.invalid> escribió:
> 
>> I was trying to print a dot on console every second to indicates
>> running process, so I wrote, for example:
>>
>> for i in xrange(10):
>>     print ".",
>>     time.sleep(1)
>>
>> Idealy, a dot will be printed out each second. But there is nothing
>> print out until after 10 seconds, all 10 dots come out together.
>>
>> I've tried lose the comma in the print statement, and it works.
>>
>> Is that because of the print statement buffer the characters until
>> there is a new line character?
> 
> Very probably, altough I can't reproduce it on Windows. Try invoking the script with python -u (unbuffered input/output):
> 
> python -u your_script.py
> 
Or just write to sys.stdout without the print wrapper..

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