On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:17:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > I'm writing a simple interactive program to maintain a database. > > The goal was to print "> " at the beginning of the line, wait for > > user input and then deal with it. Minimal test program: > > > > import sys; print ">", ; print sys.stdin.readline() > > > > However when I run the program and enter "foobar" it looks like this: > > > > ./test.py > > >foobar > > foobar > > ^----------- where does this space come from? > > Another question you could ask is: why is there NO space after > the '>'? Have a look at this. > [...] > So it looks like the space was sitting in the output buffer.
Yes, probably. But how do I get that buffer flushed? I tried sys.stdout.flush() after the print statement but it wasn't printed, either. I probabl need something like... print "> "+ instead of print ">", How could I solve that decently? Christoph -- I'm still confused - just on a higher level now. ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list