Python File Flush() Method

Description

Python file 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 the flush() method:

fileObject.flush();  

Parameters

• NA

Return Value

This method does not return any value.

Example

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

#!/usr/bin/python

# 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

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