Commit d399b886 authored by Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Patch #552812: Better description in "python -h" for -u.

parent 98e008d5
......@@ -138,7 +138,11 @@ 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.
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.
.TP
.B \-v
Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place
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......@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ static char *usage_2 = "\
-S : don't imply 'import site' on initialization\n\
-t : issue warnings about inconsistent tab usage (-tt: issue errors)\n\
-u : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr (also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x)\n\
see man page for details on internal buffering relating to "-u"\n\
";
static char *usage_3 = "\
-v : verbose (trace import statements) (also PYTHONVERBOSE=x)\n\
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