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This script demonstrate the `flush` argument of print() function.
#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function
from time import sleep
string = "The words in this sentence should appear letter by letter."
print("Please wait if you don't see another sentence appearing below.", end="\n\n")
for characters in string:
# If flush disabled the another line will appear at once and not char by char.
print(characters, end="", flush=True)
sleep(.1)
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No difference with or without flush. Python 3.9 Windows 10 Pro

I agree with this

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