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Subject: Re: Seome kind of unblocking input
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:50:33 -0400
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:13:57 +0100, Mark Lawrence
<breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 23/09/2012 16:49, Ramchandra Apte wrote:

> > You can clear the buffer by calling file.flush()
> >
> 
> Shock, horror, probe, well I never did.  I'm sure that everyone is 
> updating their Xmas and birthday card lists to ensure that you're not 
> missed out having furnished a piece of information that doubtless not 
> one other person on this group knew.

	It probably wouldn't have helped either... The OP was looking for,
as I recall, some means by which a pending input would not block other
output on a console... So what use is flushing a buffer?
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