In article <mailman.997.1259210013.2873.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:52:09 -0800 (PST), Sandy <dksre...@gmail.com> >declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: >> >> Sometimes (very rare) it prints something like this: >> ab >> c >> d >> e > > Not > >ab > >c >d >e > >?
That's what I would guess, too. > Since all the forked processes are sharing the same output device, >it is quite possible that their output is getting interleaved. Actually, I am a tiny bit surprised; I would have expected that a single output call at the C level would not get interleaved. Of course, it's quite likely that the string and the \n are separate API calls. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list