From 76b245e154972150b5e1f0290a3be27a07d91cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Speth <speth@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:07:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Python logger now flushes stdout after every call to writelog

---
 src/python/pylogger.h | 24 ++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/python/pylogger.h b/src/python/pylogger.h
index 076fa20d8..efe6d77f0 100644
--- a/src/python/pylogger.h
+++ b/src/python/pylogger.h
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 #include <string>
 #include "cantera/base/logger.h"
 
-static std::string ss = "print \"\"\" ";
-
 namespace Cantera
 {
 
@@ -15,23 +13,17 @@ namespace Cantera
 class Py_Logger : public Logger
 {
 public:
-    Py_Logger() {}
+    Py_Logger() {
+        PyRun_SimpleString("import sys");
+    }
     virtual ~Py_Logger() {}
 
     virtual void write(const std::string& s) {
-        char ch = s[0];
-        int n = 0;
-        while (ch != '\0') {
-            if (ch =='\n') {
-                ss += "\"\"\"";
-                PyRun_SimpleString((char*)ss.c_str());
-                ss = "print \"\"\"";
-            } else {
-                ss += ch;
-            }
-            n++;
-            ch = s[n];
-        }
+        std::string ss = "sys.stdout.write(\"\"\"";
+        ss += s;
+        ss += "\"\"\")";
+        PyRun_SimpleString(ss.c_str());
+        PyRun_SimpleString("sys.stdout.flush()");
     }
 
     virtual void error(const std::string& msg) {