Disable buffering for tool?

[recursive]

How do I disable buffering for capturing output on tools? For example, I'm running a python script through textpad that may take several minutes or hours or days to complete, and I would like to see the output in the output window when it occurs, not when the buffer fills. How can this be accomplished? I know it can be done by sending a large amount of output to force the buffer to flush, but that's not exactly elegant.

[recursive]

Well, I've answered my own question a year and a half later.

Textpad cannot control it. The script in question must flush standard output when it is desired to see the output.

In my case: (python)

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import sys
...
while 1:
    ...
    print "current status: " + status
    sys.stdout.flush()

[ak47wong]

Thanks for following up

Andrew