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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:31:50 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:20:37 UTC+5:30, Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:13:57 +0100, Mark Lawrence
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> <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> declaimed the following in
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> gmane.comp.python.general:
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> > On 23/09/2012 16:49, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
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> > > You can clear the buffer by calling file.flush()
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> > >
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> > 
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> > Shock, horror, probe, well I never did.  I'm sure that everyone is 
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> > updating their Xmas and birthday card lists to ensure that you're not 
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> > missed out having furnished a piece of information that doubtless not 
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> > one other person on this group knew.
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> 
> 	It probably wouldn't have helped either... The OP was looking for,
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> as I recall, some means by which a pending input would not block other
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> output on a console... So what use is flushing a buffer?
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> -- 
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> 	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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>         wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/


Okay okay! My message was out-of-context.
Anyways, nobody in my age group knows that you can clear the buffer of a file in Python by calling file.flush().