Robert Wierschke wrote: > Madhusudan Singh schrieb: >> Hi >> >> I have a python application that writes a lot of data to a bunch >> of files >> from inside a loop. Sometimes, the application has to be interrupted and >> I find that a lot of data has not yet been writen (and hence is lost). >> How do I flush the buffer and force python to write the buffers to the >> files ? I intend to put this inside the loop. >> >> Thanks. > disable the buffer! > > open( filename[, mode[, bufsize]]) > > open takes an optional 3ed argument set bufsize = 0 means unbuffered. > see the documentation of the in build file() mehtod as open is just > another name
Though I will not be using this solution (plan to use flush() explicitly) for speed reasons, thanks ! I will file this away for future reference :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
