On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the following code: > > > > > > def ReplaceExternalWithCopy( localDir, remoteDir ): > > print "Removing external local directory:", localDir > > rmdirs( localDir ) > > vfxrepo.copy( remoteDir, localDir ) > > > > I noticed that the print statement above does not show up before > > vfxrepo.copy() is called. the copy() function (as well as the rmdirs() > > function) are very long file-system calls that take up to 5 minutes. I > > should see a print statement before these are executed, but I do not. > > Instead it shows up *after* the last 2 lines of code have completed. Is > > there something broken about this? > > My guess is that the output is getting buffered and the buffer doesn't > get flushed until sometime after the function executes. That was indeed the case. I'm using Notepad++ to execute my python scripts, and they have their own little console window. Executing the script directly in a CMD console works fine.
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