I was debugging some code that had some never-ending loop issues, and I sometimes couldn't figure out how to make informative print statements to help identify which loop was broken.    An example case is:  def fake_function():     print 'I am about to enter a broken loop.'      while True:     #  Doesn't matter what I'm doing here.         _ = None   When I then call fake_function, I don't get any output until I halt it.  A slightly larger example that might show why I wanted this looks like:  def another_fake_function():      #  This loop is fine and not broken.       print 'I am entering a loop that might be broken.'         leave_loop = False     while not leave_loop:         #  Do a thing.         leave_loop = True      #  This loop actually is broken.     print 'I am about to enter a different loop that might be broken.'     while True:         #  Doesn't matter what I'm doing here.         _ = None   So, is there any way to really force python to print something immediately?    Thanks!
How do I force Python's print function to output to the screen?
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