[Zope] Re: Unfair Linux Threads And Python Oh My

[Daryl Tester]

Marcus Collins wrote:

> If I replace the call to sys.stderr.write with a simple print, then I get a
> single asterisk. Is sys.stderr.write() perhaps buffered?

I thought it was, but I just tried:

>>> sys.stderr.write('*'); time.sleep(3); sys.stderr.write('*\n')
**
>>> 

and had the first asterisk printed immediately (on python shipped
with RedHat 6.1).  I don't think you can rely on it being unbuffered,
but being a file object it does have a flush() method.


Regards,
  Daryl Tester