Python webserver output flushing.

native_client_sdk/src/examples/httpd.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """A tiny web server.
 
 This is intended to be used for testing, and only run from within the examples
 directory.
 """
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 # An HTTP server that will quit when |is_running| is set to False.  We also use
 # SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn in order to handle requests asynchronously for
 # faster responses.
 class QuittableHTTPServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn,
                           BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
   def serve_forever(self, timeout=0.5):
     self.is_running = True
     self.timeout = timeout
     while self.is_running:
+      sys.stderr.flush()

[noelallen1, 2012/07/26 21:11:04]

Should be harmless, but I would expect stderr to be unbuffered by default.

+      sys.stdout.flush()
       self.handle_request()
 
   def shutdown(self):
     self.is_running = False
     return 1
 
 
 # "Safely" split a string at |sep| into a [key, value] pair.  If |sep| does not
 # exist in |str|, then the entire |str| is the key and the value is set to an
 # empty string.
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     parser.print_help()
   elif len(args) == 2:
     Run((SERVER_HOST, int(args[1])))
   else:
     Run((SERVER_HOST, SERVER_PORT))
   return 0
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   sys.exit(main())