Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I think the default of 0, meaning unbuffered, is a poor choice.

So do I, but I'm not sure whether it's acceptable to change behaviour in
a potentially incompatible way.

> Barring that semantic change, please add a note to the doc:  "Most
> users will want to set bufsize=4096 for pipe-like buffering, or
> bufsize=1 for line-based buffering."  

Yes, it deserves a documentation note indeed.

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