Why does producer delay halt shell pipe?

[dwhall]

I have 2 python scripts: examples of a producer and a filter,
respectively:

#! /usr/bin/env python
import sys, time
if __name__ == "__main__":
while True:
sys.stdout.write("hello.\r\n")
time.sleep(0.000001)

#! /usr/bin/env python
import sys
if __name__ == "__main__":
line = sys.stdin.readline()
while line:
sys.stdout.write(line.upper())
line = sys.stdin.readline()

I wish to use these programs in Bash, like so:

$ ./producer.py | ./filter.py

However, the producer's time delay makes this not work. If I remove
or reduce the delay, it works. In reality the producer has an
unavoidable one-second delay. I do NOT want to use popen or its
cousins because I want flexibility from the command line; I have many
filters. Is there any way to write the filter to make this work?

thanks,

!!Dean

[Nanjundi]

On Dec 11, 1:05 pm, dwhall <[e-mail]:

filters. Is there any way to write the filter to make this work?

thanks,

!!Dean

turn off python buffering & it should work.
export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=t

n'joy
-N

[dwhall]

Thanks, N, it works like a charm.

!!Dean

On Dec 11, 12:49 pm, Nanjundi <[e-mail]:

turn off python buffering & it should work.
export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=t