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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-04-02 08:47:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-04-02 08:47:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 379299cecc7d6a7aaa5601ff42d9083329e33ab6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f75b3571ee52b0f45d736b19a29be1bd756b97b /Doc | |
| parent | 0f3ec6dd6255795d86ffb539866f58427f226280 (diff) | |
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#8213: document behavior of -u on py3k better.
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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 540e4d7..0978770 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -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`. |