sys.stdout.write() does not suffer from the newlines mess up when printing from many threads, like print statement does.
The only usage difference, AFAIK, is to add '\n' at the end of the string. It's faster and thread safe (really?) by default. BTW, why I didn't find the source code to the sys module in the 'Lib' directory? ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:17 +1000 > Subject: Re: Please help with Threading > From: ros...@gmail.com > To: python-list@python.org > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM, 88888 Dihedral > <dihedral88...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> OK, if the python interpreter has a global hiden print out >> buffer of ,say, 2to 16 K bytes, and all string print functions >> just construct the output string from the format to this string >> in an efficient low level way, then the next question >> would be that whether the uses can use functions in this >> low level buffer for other string formatting jobs. > > You remind me of George. > http://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/ > > Both make great reading when I'm at work and poking around with random > stuff in our .SQL file of carefully constructed mayhem. > > ChrisA > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
