> You aren't doing anything wrong. The print function writes to > sys.stdout. > sys.stdout is a buffered file which means it doesn''t write to its > output > immediately but waits until enough data is in its buffer to make it > worthwhile - or until explicitly told to flush itself. > > Because you are trying to write only one character at a time it's not > enough to make stdout write so you need to explicitly flush() it. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/l2p/
Thanks for the explanation. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
