> On 18 May 2020, at 21:50, Dick Holmes <enco...@cox.net> wrote:
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> Per Peter's suggestion I tried readline and it works "as expected". I
> also discovered that the reason the read operations were stalling was
> that they followed a write and the write doesn't actually occur until
> "flush" is called even though the function call returns. There are
> undoubtedly some subtleties lurking about, but at least I'm making good
> progress.
You need the flush() because the stream is using buffered I/O.
Each write adds to the buffer inside python and when then buffer if full it is
written out of Python into the OS.
As you found you can force a partial buffer to be written by calling flush().
Barry
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Dick
>
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