Use system default buffering on Python 2 #1149
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By default, streams are unbuffered on Python 2 (
bufsize = 0
) while system default buffering is used on Python 3 (bufsize = -1
). Using system default buffering as well on Python 2 improves performance.Here are some measurements obtained with this script when completing the
os
,numpy
, andcv2
(opencv-python) modules on Python 2 and Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit:This change is