[Tutor] buffering IO

[John P Speno]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:44:16AM +0400, Denis Dzyubenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to disable buffering for some file descriptors. For regular files
> I can use third argument of open(fname, mode, bufsize), but what to do
> with stdin and stdout? In C I can use setvbuf function to disable
> buffering, but I can't find python-version of this function.

See the -u option for python, which says:

       -u     Force  stdin,  stdout  and  stderr  to  be  totally
              unbuffered.