From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:20:07 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.3rc1~496
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6bfecd1271b305afcbe3f3f68980f89aa44e1910;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
  in order to display the prompt correctly.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
---

diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index 13c56e196f8b..fbef96e691fa 100644
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     def prompt(prompt):
         sys.stdout.write(prompt + ": ")
+        sys.stdout.flush()
         return sys.stdin.readline().strip()
 
     fromaddr = prompt("From")
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fbba9b1626ff..d610ff45f219 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
+  in order to display the prompt correctly.
+
 - Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
   now available on Windows.