On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:49:50 -0400 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > In the above example, I could say that Python did what it promised to do > -- print something to the stdout stream, and that failure on flushing > was outside its purview. > > I could also say that if one wants the flush to be considered part of > the program operation, one should put it in the program explicitly > instead of depending on implicit operations after the program ended.
Good point. It isn't very hard to call stdout.flush() yourself if you are using stdout as a data stream, and want the user to be notified of errors. Similarly, if deallocating a file object produces an error during the interpreter's lifetime, the error is printed out on stderr and then ignored. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
