Proposal for new option -U extending -u

[James Thiele]

Currently -u specifies that stdin, stdout and stderr are all
unbuffered. I propose a that -U make all files unbuffered. It could be
useful for programs that log to files.

Comments solicited.

 

[Fuzzyman]

Currently -u specifies that stdin, stdout and stderr are all
unbuffered. I propose a that -U make all files unbuffered. It could be
useful for programs that log to files.

Comments solicited.

'-U' is already taken (for unicode only strings). Other than that I
have no opinion (don't think I'd use it...).

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

 

[Carl Banks]

Currently -u specifies that stdin, stdout and stderr are all
unbuffered. I propose a that -U make all files unbuffered. It could be
useful for programs that log to files.

Comments solicited.

Unnecessary. You can control the buffering of any file object you
create yourself, e.g. open("somefile",buffering=0) to create an
unbuffered file object. The reason you need a switch for stdin,
stdout, stderr is you don't create those objects yourself.

Carl Banks