On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following code: > > > def ReplaceExternalWithCopy( localDir, remoteDir ): > print "Removing external local directory:", localDir > rmdirs( localDir ) > vfxrepo.copy( remoteDir, localDir ) > > I noticed that the print statement above does not show up before > vfxrepo.copy() is called. the copy() function (as well as the rmdirs() > function) are very long file-system calls that take up to 5 minutes. I > should see a print statement before these are executed, but I do not. > Instead it shows up *after* the last 2 lines of code have completed. Is > there something broken about this?
My guess is that the output is getting buffered and the buffer doesn't get flushed until sometime after the function executes. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
