If you wanted to make sure stdio was flushed you could always do...
sys.stdout.write("Message\n")
sys.stdout.flush()
Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Hi,
>> I noticed, that sys.stout does not get flushed before the process is
> replaced. The last print statements (before execvp()) disappear.
>> It only happens, if the output is redirected to a file (if sys.stdout is
> not line buffered).
>> """#testexec.py
> import os
> print "Messsage"
> os.execvp("/bin/true", ["/bin/true"])
> """
>> ===> python tmp/testexec.py
> Messsage
>> ===> python tmp/testexec.py > out ; cat out
>>> Is this a bug or feature?
>> My version:
> Python 2.4.2 (#1, May 2 2006, 08:28:01)
> GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
>>> --
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