Change python print flush rate

Question

Is it possible to change the rate that Python flushes content to the console? I know it is possible to add flush = True to the print command (at least in latest version of Python 3) to ensure the content is printed, however, is there a global setting that can be changed so that content is committed to the screen more often, or after a set amount of time.

(essentially, i want to make content be flushed more quickly, or at least in periodic intervals, but not every single print statement which would slow down the code).

Answer 1

You could do something like this toy example:

import time

print_interval = 1 # 1 second
last_print_time = time.time()

for i in range(100):
    time.sleep(0.1) # An arbitrary time-consuming task
    now = time.time()
    if now - last_print_time >= print_interval:
        print('something', flush=True)
        last_print_time = now
    else:
        print('somethine else', flush=False)