Tobias Columbus wrote:
> This is my first post here and I am not 100% sure if this topic
> really belongs here.. Anyway, I'll give it a try.
>
> I recently dealt with using vim's python omnicompletion for SAGE
> development (see www.sagemath.org).
> In order to get SAGE working in vim I tried
>
> :py import sage.all
>
> However, this fails due to the minimalistic implementation of
> sys.stdout in vim's python interpreter (... and, to be honest,
> due to a bug in SAGE which imports unnecessary stuff, which relies
> on attributes that are not guaranteed to exist).
>
> To be more precise, :py import sage.all crashes because vim's
> sys.stdout has no 'flush' attribute.
> I patched vim to include a dummy implementation of
> sys.stdout.flush, which does nothing at all.
> A corresponding patch file is attached.
>
> I wondered, if this modification could be merged into upstream?
>
> Admittedly, the changes are quite specific and the python
> documentation of sys.stdout states that vim's implementation is
> 100% correct:
>
> [...] stdout and stderr needn’t be built-in file objects: any
> object is acceptable as long as it has a write() method that
> takes a string argument.
> (See http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html)
>
> However, the documentation of file.flush() also says:
>
> [...] This may be a no-op on some file-like objects.
> (See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file-objects)
>
> So it seems to me that my dummy flush implementation is alright
> and should break no working code.
Thanks. Looks harmless to me. A few more lines can be omitted that you
apparently copied from OutputWrite().
I was hoping this would also fix the crash for ":python help(dir)", but
it doesn't.
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