Method flush

bpython/repl.py:1077–1089

Olivier Grisel brought it to my attention that the logging module tries to call this method, since it makes assumptions about stdout that may not necessarily be true. The docs for sys.stdout say: "stdout and stderr needn't be built-in file objects: any objec

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        self.rl_history.entries = entries

    def flush(self) -> None:
        """Olivier Grisel brought it to my attention that the logging
        module tries to call this method, since it makes assumptions
        about stdout that may not necessarily be true. The docs for
        sys.stdout say:

        "stdout and stderr needn't be built-in file objects: any
         object is acceptable as long as it has a write() method
         that takes a string argument."

        So I consider this to be a bug in logging, and this is a hack
        to fix it, unfortunately. I'm sure it's not the only module
        to do it."""

    def close(self):
        """See the flush() method docstring."""