In <[email protected]> Chris Angelico 
<[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Rikishi42 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have these 2 scripts that are very heavy on the file i/o, consume a very
> > reasonable amount of cpu and output their counters at a - very - relaxed
> > pace to the console. The output is very simply done using something like:
> >
> >    print "files:", nFiles, "\r",
> >
> >
> > Yet alltough there is no real reason for it, even a pace of a print every
> > 10-30 secs will be cached, only to actually show an output update every 1-2
> > min or so.

> Yup! Just add a call to sys.stdout.flush() after each print.

Isn't terminal output line-buffered?  I don't understand why there would
be an output delay.  (Unless the "\r" is messing things up...)

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