Message 151213 - Python tracker

Message151213

Author	cameron
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, cameron, docs@python, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, python-dev, techtonik, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2012-01-14.03:34:58
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Message-id	<1326512100.05.0.755740049401.issue11633@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Putting the wording into 2.7 might be nice, but I thought it was in bugfix only mode. Regarding UNIX only, I'd avoid it; any file may be buffered in almost any way on any platform. Saying an explicit flush call may be necessary for immediate output is _not_ UNIX only and would be very misleading. Remembering that ~UNIX != Windows. Telling users to explicitly call flush to ensure immediate output where that is necessary ensures portable coding (or ought to, user pigheadedness discounted:-)

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Putting the wording into 2.7 might be nice, but I thought it was in bugfix only mode.

Regarding UNIX only, I'd avoid it; any file may be buffered in almost any way on any platform. Saying an explicit flush call may be necessary for immediate output is _not_ UNIX only and would be very misleading. Remembering that ~UNIX != Windows.

Telling users to explicitly call flush to ensure immediate output where that is necessary ensures portable coding (or ought to, user pigheadedness discounted:-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-01-14 03:35:00	cameron	set	recipients: + cameron, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, amaury.forgeotdarc, vstinner, techtonik, eric.araujo, docs@python, python-dev
2012-01-14 03:35:00	cameron	set	messageid: <1326512100.05.0.755740049401.issue11633@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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