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From: "assistant-librarian[bot]"
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:59:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [CK Tools] Auto-enable unbuffered output for Python commands
 (#4265)
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ck-docker exec and ck-exec now automatically detect Python commands and
set PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 to enable live output streaming. This eliminates
the need to manually set the environment variable when running Python
scripts that print progress updates.

The detection matches python, python3, or any .py file argument.

This helps in watching live terminal output when a python script is
running inside the container.



---
🔁 Imported from
[ROCm/composable_kernel#3694](https://github.com/ROCm/composable_kernel/pull/3694)
🧑‍💻 Originally authored by @AviralGoelAMD

Co-authored-by: AviralGoelAMD <aviral.goel@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude (claude-opus-4.5) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: systems-assistant[bot] <systems-assistant[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 script/tools/ck-docker | 13 +++++++++++++
 script/tools/ck-exec   | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/script/tools/ck-docker b/script/tools/ck-docker
index 6c118561b7..19e539909f 100755
--- a/script/tools/ck-docker
+++ b/script/tools/ck-docker
@@ -112,6 +112,19 @@ cmd_exec() {
     local docker_flags=()
     [ -t 0 ] && [ -t 1 ] && docker_flags+=("-it")
 
+    # Auto-detect Python commands and enable unbuffered output for live streaming
+    local is_python=false
+    for arg in "$@"; do
+        if [[ "$arg" == "python" || "$arg" == "python3" || "$arg" == *.py ]]; then
+            is_python=true
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+
+    if [ "$is_python" = true ]; then
+        docker_flags+=("-e" "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1")
+    fi
+
     docker exec "${docker_flags[@]}" "${CONTAINER_NAME}" "$@"
 }
 
diff --git a/script/tools/ck-exec b/script/tools/ck-exec
index dfc7655774..5d5dd2bded 100755
--- a/script/tools/ck-exec
+++ b/script/tools/ck-exec
@@ -103,9 +103,18 @@ for arg in "${command_args[@]}"; do
     cmd_string="${cmd_string} $(printf '%q' "$arg")"
 done
 
+# Auto-detect Python commands and enable unbuffered output for live streaming
+env_flags=""
+for arg in "${command_args[@]}"; do
+    if [[ "$arg" == "python" || "$arg" == "python3" || "$arg" == *.py ]]; then
+        env_flags="-e PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1"
+        break
+    fi
+done
+
 # Execute command
 if [ "$interactive" = true ]; then
-    docker exec -it -w "${workdir}" "${CONTAINER_NAME}" bash -c "${cmd_string}"
+    docker exec -it ${env_flags} -w "${workdir}" "${CONTAINER_NAME}" bash -c "${cmd_string}"
 else
-    docker exec -w "${workdir}" "${CONTAINER_NAME}" bash -c "${cmd_string}"
+    docker exec ${env_flags} -w "${workdir}" "${CONTAINER_NAME}" bash -c "${cmd_string}"
 fi