Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: I *thought* I mimicked what C stdio did ~20 years ago... I'd be happy to follow what it does today if it changed or if I made a mistake.
That said, IMO: Line-buffering should be good enough since in practice errors messages are always terminated by a newline. I'm hesitant to make it line-buffered by default when directed to a file, since this could significantly slow down a program that for some reason produces super-voluminous output (e.g. when running a program with heavy debug logging turned on). Maybe we need better command-line control to override the defaults? Are there precedents e.g. in Bash flags? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13601> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
