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Patch #552812: Better description in "python -h" for -u.
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
date Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:34:08 +0000
parents e0ed68adba33
children ba3038a27c1e
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--- a/Misc/python.man	Sun Jul 28 10:23:27 2002 +0000
+++ b/Misc/python.man	Sun Jul 28 10:34:08 2002 +0000
@@ -138,7 +138,11 @@
 expressed in spaces.  Issue an error when the option is given twice.
 .TP
 .B \-u
-Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered.
+Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered.  Note that
+there is internal buffering in xreadlines(), readlines() and file-object
+iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not influenced by this
+option.  To work around this, you will want to use "sys.stdin.readline()"
+inside a "while 1:" loop.
 .TP
 .B \-v
 Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place