Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > stdio uses different buffering strategies depending on the output > type. When the output is a TTY, line buffering is used; when the > output goes to a pipe or file, it is fully buffered.
Makes sense. > If you see lines one by one, you are in luck, and you can fix things > on the Python level simply by avoiding buffering in popen. If not, > you will need to resort to more advanced hackery (e.g. fixing stdio > using LD_PRELOAD). Do I really? After all, the shell itself doesn't hack stdio, does it? Anyway, I'm taking this over to comp.unix.programmer since it really isn't a python problem. Thanks, robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
