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Re: Seome kind of unblocking input

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Date 2012-09-24 15:14 +1000
Subject Re: Seome kind of unblocking input
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1181.1348463659.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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?

It all depends on *why* pending input appears to be blocking other
output. I say "appears to be" because buffered output can indeed
appear to be blocked, but so can other things.

Flushing output is an easy thing to try. If it fails, back to square
one, but with more knowledge.

ChrisA

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Seome kind of unblocking input janis.judvaitis@gmail.com - 2012-09-21 02:13 -0700
  Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-21 15:54 -0400
    Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 08:49 -0700
      Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-23 18:13 +0100
      Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-23 13:50 -0400
        Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 22:31 -0700
        Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 22:31 -0700
      Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-24 15:14 +1000
    Re: Seome kind of unblocking input Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 08:49 -0700
  Re: Seome kind of unblocking input janis.judvaitis@gmail.com - 2012-09-25 01:05 -0700

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