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Document that -u puts stdin, stdout, and stderr in binary mode.

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Sjoerd Mullender 2002-08-09 13:37:31 +00:00
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@ -138,11 +138,12 @@ indentation in a way that makes it depend on the worth of a tab
expressed in spaces. Issue an error when the option is given twice.
.TP
.B \-u
Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered. Note that
there is internal buffering in xreadlines(), readlines() and file-object
iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not influenced by this
option. To work around this, you will want to use "sys.stdin.readline()"
inside a "while 1:" loop.
Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered. On systems
where it matters, also put stdin, stdout and stderr in binary mode.
Note that there is internal buffering in xreadlines(), readlines() and
file-object iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not
influenced by this option. To work around this, you will want to use
"sys.stdin.readline()" inside a "while 1:" loop.
.TP
.B \-v
Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place