.. cmdoption:: -u
- Force the binary layer of the stdout and stderr streams (which is
- available as their ``buffer`` attribute) to be unbuffered. The text I/O
- layer will still be line-buffered if writing to the console, or
- block-buffered if redirected to a non-interactive file.
+ Force the stdout and stderr streams to be unbuffered.
See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ The text layer of the stdout and stderr streams now is unbuffered.
+
.. cmdoption:: -v
rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-u', '-c', code)
data = err if stream == 'stderr' else out
self.assertEqual(data, b'x', "binary %s not unbuffered" % stream)
- # Text is line-buffered
- code = ("import os, sys; sys.%s.write('x\\n'); os._exit(0)"
+ # Text is unbuffered
+ code = ("import os, sys; sys.%s.write('x'); os._exit(0)"
% stream)
rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-u', '-c', code)
data = err if stream == 'stderr' else out
- self.assertEqual(data.strip(), b'x',
- "text %s not line-buffered" % stream)
+ self.assertEqual(data, b'x', "text %s not unbuffered" % stream)
def test_unbuffered_input(self):
# sys.stdin still works with '-u'
--- /dev/null
+The -u option now makes the stdout and stderr streams unbuffered rather than
+line-buffered.
PyObject *buf = NULL, *stream = NULL, *text = NULL, *raw = NULL, *res;
const char* mode;
const char* newline;
- PyObject *line_buffering;
+ PyObject *line_buffering, *write_through;
int buffering, isatty;
_Py_IDENTIFIER(open);
_Py_IDENTIFIER(isatty);
Py_DECREF(res);
if (isatty == -1)
goto error;
- if (isatty || Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag)
+ if (Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag)
+ write_through = Py_True;
+ else
+ write_through = Py_False;
+ if (isatty && !Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag)
line_buffering = Py_True;
else
line_buffering = Py_False;
newline = "\n";
#endif
- stream = _PyObject_CallMethodId(io, &PyId_TextIOWrapper, "OsssO",
+ stream = _PyObject_CallMethodId(io, &PyId_TextIOWrapper, "OsssOO",
buf, encoding, errors,
- newline, line_buffering);
+ newline, line_buffering, write_through);
Py_CLEAR(buf);
if (stream == NULL)
goto error;