Bug#408294: marked as done (Please make sys.stdin line buffered when reading from a terminal)

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regarding Please make sys.stdin line buffered when reading from a terminal
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Package: python2.4
Version: 2.4.4-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I noticed that sys.stdin is fully buffered even when reading from a
terminal, which contrasts a bit with what is usual in most other
languages and command line tools:

Given:

import sys
for i in sys.stdin:
        print "->", i[:-1]

You get:

$ python /tmp/foo.py
a
b
c
-> a
-> b
-> c


But for example in Perl:

while (<>)
{
        print "-> ", $_
}

You get:

$ perl /tmp/foo.pl
a
-> a
b
-> b
c
-> c


Or C:

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
        while (!feof(stdin))
        {
                char buf[1000];
                fgets(buf, 1000, stdin);
                fputs("-> ", stdout);
                fputs(buf, stdout);
        }
        return 0;
}

You get:

$ gcc /tmp/foo.c -o /tmp/foo
$ /tmp/foo
a
-> a
b
-> b
c
-> c
-> c



Best regards,

Enrico Zini

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1enrico
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages python2.4 depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0                   1.0.3-6     high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.4                     4.4.20-8    Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii  libncursesw5                 5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-2       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-4    SSL shared libraries
ii  mime-support                 3.39-1      MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  python2.4-minimal            2.4.4-1     A minimal subset of the Python lan

python2.4 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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python2.4 has been obsoleted in Debian long ago. I'm now closing the
remaining bugs against this ancient version, assuming they have been
fixed (or became irrelevant) in newer releases.

Feel free to provide more information and reopen the bugs if they are
still reproducible in the current versions (python2.7, python3.x).


Andreas

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