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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-09 18:53:14 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-09 18:53:14 (GMT)
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Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being to buffer arbitrary chunks of data). Patch by Victor Stinner, test by me.
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 0
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #4705: Fix the -u ("unbuffered binary stdout and stderr") command-line
+ flag to work properly. Furthermore, when specifying -u, the text stdout
+ and stderr streams have line-by-line buffering enabled (the default being
+ to buffer arbitrary chunks of data).
+
- The internal table, _PyLong_DigitValue, is now an array of unsigned chars
instead of ints (reducing its size from 4 to 8 times thereby reducing
Python's overall memory).