Should mutter() flush the log file?

[John Arbash Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:34 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>>
>>I don't think it really matters. But since I was testing that mutter()
>>actually did write something, I needed it to flush before I read what
>>it
>>had written.
>>
>>I was just wondering since you might be trying to track down a bug
>>using mutter(), and python is crashing before it flushes the buffer.
> 
> 
> My understanding was that setting buffering=1 (line buffering) was
> pretty much equivalent to flushing after each line.
> 

That doesn't seem to be true. At least I have a test case which proves
it. But it might depend on platform and phase of the moon.

John
=:->

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