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Subject: Re: Flush stdin
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> I found this comment in CPython's source code (pythonrun.c):
>
>     /* stdin is always opened in buffered mode, first because it shouldn't
>        make a difference in common use cases, second because TextIOWrapper
>        depends on the presence of a read1() method which only exists on
>        buffered streams.
>     */
>
> The solution is to use os.read().

Seriously?