Re: Flush stdin

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On 2014-10-18 17:55, Nobody wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:38:54 +0100, Empty Account wrote:
>
>> I am using netcat to listen to a port and python to read stdin and print
>> to the console.
>>
>> nc -l 2003 | python print_metrics.py
>>
>> sys.stdin.flush() doesn’t seem to flush stdin,
>
> You can't "flush" an input stream.
>
[snip]

Flushing an input stream means (or could mean) discarding any data
that's currently in the buffer.

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Flush stdin Empty Account <emptya45@gmail.com> - 2014-10-17 12:38 +0100
  Re: Flush stdin Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-10-18 17:55 +0100
    Re: Flush stdin Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-10-18 12:32 -0500
      Re: Flush stdin Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-10-19 02:11 +0100
        Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 18:34 -0700
        Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 18:42 -0700
          Re: Flush stdin Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-10-22 03:49 +0100
            Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 20:11 -0700
    Re: Flush stdin MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-10-18 18:55 +0100
    Re: Flush stdin Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-10-19 08:01 +1100
    Re: Flush stdin Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-18 18:35 -0400

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