Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Could you please provide an example which uses this feature?
A generic example is to parse messages out of a TCP stream. Basically any protocol transported on TCP needs such a facility, or has to find workarounds (which are either suboptimal or complicated). Mercurial has another implementation strategy for a similar thing: http://selenic.com/repo/hg/file/50d721553198/mercurial/util.py#l935 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19087> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
