On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:57 +0100
Xavier Morel <python-...@masklinn.net> wrote:
> FWIW this is not restricted to Linux (the same behavior change can
> be observed in OSX), and the script is overly complex you can expose
> the change with 3 lines
>
> import sys
> sys.stdout.write('promt>')
> sys.stdin.read(1)
>
> Python 2 displays "prompt" and terminates execution on [Return],
> Python 3 does not display anything until [Return] is pressed.
>
> Interestingly, the `-u` option is not sufficient to make
> "prompt>" appear in Python 3, the stream has to be flushed
> explicitly unless the input is ~16k characters (I guess that's
> an internal buffer size of some sort)
"-u" forces line-buffering mode for stdout/stderr, which is already the
default if they are wired to an interactive device (isattr() returning
True).
But this was already rehashed on python-ideas and the bug tracker, and
apparently Anatoly thought it would be a good idea to post on a third
medium. Sigh.
Regards
Antoine.
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