What Is the Use of Pythonunbuffered in Docker File?
I Was Watching a Tutorial to Dockerize My Django Application. I Did Not Understand Why We Use Pythonunbuffered as Environment Variable in Dockerfile. Can You...
I was watching a tutorial to dockerize my django application. I did not understand why we use PYTHONUNBUFFERED as environment variable in DockerFile.
Can you please help?
3 Answers
Setting PYTHONUNBUFFERED to a non empty value ensures that the python output is sent straight to terminal (e.g. your container log) without being first buffered and that you can see the output of your application (e.g. django logs) in real time.
This also ensures that no partial output is held in a buffer somewhere and never written in case the python application crashes.
References:
PYTHONUNBUFFERED non empty value force the stdout and stderr streams to be unbuffered. This option has no effect on the stdin stream
This instructs Python to run in UNBUFFERED mode, which is recommended when using Python inside a Docker container. The reason for this is that it does not allow Python to buffer outputs; instead, it prints output directly, avoiding some complications in the docker image when running your Python application.
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