Bugs item #822974, was opened at 2003-10-13 21:21 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=822974&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 7 Submitted By: Mitchel Quinn (mnquinn) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Telnet.read_until() timeout parameter misleading Initial Comment: Telnet.read_until(str,timeout) documentation reads as follows: Read until a given string, expected, is encountered or until timeout seconds have passed. When no match is found, return whatever is available instead, possibly the empty string. Raise EOFError if the connection is closed and no cooked data is available. However, the method does not behave in this manner. The method will only return if the call to select() on the socket is blocked for longer than the specified timeout. If there is a steady stream of data available, and it does not contain the specified string, this method will _NEVER_ return. A possible solution would be to subtract the elapsed time from the given timeout each time through the while loop. Here's a snippet of the code from telnetlib.py read_until(): if timeout is not None: s_args = s_args + (timeout,) while not self.eof and apply(select.select, s_args) == s_reply: i = max(0, len(self.cookedq)-n) self.fill_rawq() self.process_rawq() i = self.cookedq.find(match, i) if i >= 0: i = i+n buf = self.cookedq[:i] self.cookedq = self.cookedq[i:] return buf return self.read_very_lazy() ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-07-03 15:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This is fixed with said patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Johan M. Hahn (johahn) Date: 2003-10-17 12:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=887415 I confirm everything Mitchel wrote + I have submitted a patch for this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=825417&group_id=5470&atid=305470 ...johahn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=822974&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com