New submission from raz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The documentation for urllib.urlopen() states:
"One caveat: the read() method, if the size argument is omitted or negative, may not read until the end of the data stream; there is no good way to determine that the entire stream from a socket has been read in the general case." To an innocent reader this effectively translates to: "The read() method may silently truncate your data but we won't tell you any details about it." The paragraph should be clarified as follows: - Under what circumstances can truncation happen (which protocols are affected, under which conditions?) - What are safe use-cases where truncation can not happen (e.g. the common case of a simple HTTP-GET) ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 73122 nosy: georg.brandl, raz severity: normal status: open title: FUD in documentation for urllib.urlopen() type: behavior versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3849> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
