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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-04-02 08:47:07 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-04-02 08:47:07 (GMT)
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#8213: document behavior of -u on py3k better.
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@@ -232,8 +232,9 @@ Miscellaneous options
.. cmdoption:: -u
- Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered. On systems where it
- matters, also put stdin, stdout and stderr in binary mode.
+ 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.
See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`.