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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-12-21 10:24:15 (GMT)
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Issue #13597: Fix the documentation of the "-u" command-line option, and wording of "What's new in Python 3.0" about standard streams.
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@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ Miscellaneous options
Force the binary layer of the stdin, stdout and stderr streams (which is
available as their ``buffer`` attribute) to be unbuffered. The text I/O
- layer will still be line-buffered.
+ layer will still be line-buffered if writing to the console, or
+ block-buffered if redirected to a non-interactive file.
See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`.