On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 13:45, Fabio Zadrozny <fabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > It appears that this bug was already reported: > http://bugs.python.org/issue4705 > > Any chance that it gets in the next 3.0.x bugfix release? > > Just as a note, if I do: sys.stdout._line_buffering = True, it also > works, but doesn't seem right as it's accessing an internal attribute. > > Note 2: the solution that said to pass 'wb' does not work, because I > need the output as text and not binary or text becomes garbled when > it's not ascii. >
Can't you decode the bytes after you receive them? -Brett > Thanks, > > Fabio > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> Fror truly unbuffered text output you'd have to make changes to the >> io.TextIOWrapper class to flush after each write() call. That's an API >> change -- the constructor currently has a line_buffering option but no >> option for completely unbuffered mode. It would also require some >> changes to io.open() which currently rejects buffering=0 in text mode. >> All that suggests that it should wait until 3.1. >> >> However it might make sense to at least turn on line buffering when -u >> or PYTHONUNBUFFERED is given; that doesn't require API changes and so >> can be considered a bug fix. >> >> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Well, ``python -h`` still lists it. >>> >>> Precisely, it says: >>> >>> -u : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr; also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x >>> see man page for details on internal buffering relating to '-u' >>> >>> Note the "binary". And indeed: >>> >>> ./python -u >>> Python 3.1a0 (py3k:67839M, Dec 18 2008, 17:56:54) >>> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>>> import sys >>>>>> sys.stdout.buffer.write(b"y") >>> y1 >>>>>> >>> >>> I don't know what it would take to enable unbuffered text IO while keeping >>> the >>> current TextIOWrapper implementation... >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Antoine. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Python-Dev mailing list >>> Python-Dev@python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >>> Unsubscribe: >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fabiofz%40gmail.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
