Re: non blocking read()

[Gustavo Córdova Avila]

David Bolen wrote:

Jp Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

   def nonBlockingReadAll(fileObj):
       bytes = []
       while True:
           b = fileObj.read(1024)
           bytes.append(b)
           if len(b) < 1024:
               break
       return ''.join(bytes)

Wouldn't this still block if the input just happened to end at a
multiple of the read size (1024)?

-- David

No, it'll read up to 1024 bytes or as much as it can, and
then return an apropriatly sized string.
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