why the flush?

[Martin Pool]

On 3/22/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> In bzrlib.tests.VerboseTestResult, I dont understand why report_success
> feels the need to do a stream flush?

Because stdout is not necessarily line buffered, and it's nice to see
the results as they happen.  This is for cases like selftest run by an
editor with output to a tempfile or a pipe.

It might be better to just set the stream to linebuffered...

-- 
Martin