Re: Flush stdin

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Subject	Re: Flush stdin
Date	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:01:05 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014, at 19:16, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Actually, doesn't line buffering sometimes exist inside an OS kernel?
> stty/termios/termio/sgtty relate here, for *ix examples.  Supporting
> code: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/ttype/  It turns on
> character-at-a-time I/O in the tty driver via a variety of methods for
> portability.  I wrote it in C before I took an interest in Python.

Yes, and 90% of the time, when someone says they want to "flush stdin",
what they really want to do is go to the next line after they've
sloppily read part of the line they're on (and the behavior they are
seeing that they object to is that their next read function reads the
rest of the current line). The appropriate course of action in these
cases is to actually read to the next newline and discard the data, not
to do any kind of flush.

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Re: Flush stdin Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-10-20 14:56 +1100
  Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-20 07:45 +0300
    Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 14:59 -0700
      Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-21 01:54 +0300
    Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 15:52 -0700
      Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-21 02:18 +0300
        Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 17:30 -0700
          Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-21 07:41 +0300
            Re: Flush stdin Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 16:16 -0700
              Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-22 08:38 +0300
                Re: Flush stdin Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 17:23 +1100
              Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-22 13:57 +0300
            Re: Flush stdin random832@fastmail.us - 2014-10-22 11:01 -0400
              Re: Flush stdin Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-10-22 18:28 +0300

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