This is a difficult issue to search for, and Googling (and reviewing the pertinent Python docs) has not found me anything useful. It's also not a super important issue, but regardless of whether it's avoidable, I still want to know what the heck is going on.
Doing multiple print statements inside a for loop, using the 'comma at the end eats the newline' variant, results in zero output until the loop completes its entire iteration. def test(): print "testing:", for x in range(10): time.sleep(1) print ".", print "done." Executing test() results in the behavior described above. If one removes the commas after the first two print statements, it behaves normally, with "testing" showing up right away, then a period on each newline every second until the end. I've tried various things--os.system('sleep 1') instead of time.sleep(1), sys.stdout.write() instead of print-with-a-comma, and other equally silly tactics, to no avail. What's going on here? Thanks, Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list