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On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:25:39 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Isn't terminal output line-buffered?  I don't understand why there would
> be an output delay.  (Unless the "\r" is messing things up...)

	It's the trailing ,		The \r is being used to reset to the
beginning of the console line, but the comma "says" more output for
/this/ line will be coming... So no output until explicitly flushed, or
a new-line is issued.
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