[Tutor] Sleeping it out

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Eric Brunson" <brunson at brunson.com> wrote
> 
>> Yes, import sys, then sys.stdout.flush() when you need it.
> 
> This was my initial idea but it doesn't work in the IDE because
> it is not really using sys.stdout. In fact the normal print works
> fine from the command prompt (at least in XP)
> 
> Alan G.


Thanks guys, Idle seems to work ok, so I guess I'll do my testing in Idle.

Ricardo


> 
> 
> 
> Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>> Hi, I have this code :
>>
>> import time
>> L = [i for i in xrange(20)]
>> for n, i in enumerate(L) :
>>     if n%3 == 0 and n > 0 :
>>         print 'waiting 3 seconds'
>>         time.sleep(3)
>>     print i
>>
>> I'm using Py 2.51 and PyAlaMode. It works ok but instead of printing 
>> in
>> groups of three, it will go through the program but the printing 
>> will
>> appear all at once at the end of the loop. Is there any way to flush 
>> the
>> output?