Send data to the browser while waiting (Python)

Question

I have the following code

print "Starting stage 1<br>"

# Something that takes about 5 seconds
time.sleep(5)

print "Stage 1 complete"

I view the script with my browser as it's part of a web-app, the problem is that it's displaying all of it together. I want it to display first the starting message before it starts and then add the completion message after it's complete.

What do I use to push information to the browser in this fashion?

Answer 1

Try flush the output after the first print using sys.stdout.flush()