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user1724351
user1724351

Reputation: 181

Python sys.stdout.flush() doesn't work

The following code is supposed to print from 1 to 10 with 1 second intervals in between, however it is waiting for 10 seconds before actually printing anything and then it prints it all at once. How can I unbuffer the output?

import sys
import time
for count in range(10) :
   sys.stdout.write(str(count))
   sys.stdout.flush()
   time.sleep(1)

Upvotes: 8

Views: 13979

Answers (2)

Alexander
Alexander

Reputation: 157

Found the problem

import sys
import time
for count in range(10) :
   sys.stdout.write("\b%s" % count)
   sys.stdout.flush()
   time.sleep(.1)

Don't know why python is weird like this but apparently it accepted this. Your code should've worked fine but I guess python just didn't like you.

Upvotes: 1

whardier
whardier

Reputation: 715

Python 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3 all don't allow keyword arguments in your write call. Is that the proper code? The print function of course allows the end keyword and shouldn't be confused with write. Write does not add a newline character.

Removing 'end' keyword argument and testing shows the code works fine.

Upvotes: 0

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