Friday, March 16, 2018

File flush() Method


File flush() Method in Python 3


The method flush() flushes the internal buffer, like stdio's fflush. This may be a no-op on some file-like objects.

Python automatically flushes the files when closing them. But you may want to flush the data before closing any file.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for flush() method

fileObject.flush()


Return Value
This method does not return any value.

Example

The following example shows the usage of flush() method.

#!/usr/bin/python3
# Open a file
fo = open("foo.txt", "wb")
print ("Name of the file: ", fo.name)
# Here it does nothing, but you can call it with read operation.
fo.flush()
# Close opend file
fo.close()

When we run the above program, it produces the following result-

Name of the file: foo.txt