Neil Cerutti wrote: > It turns out to be troublesome for my case because the > EncodedFile object translates calls to readline into calls to > read. > > I believe it ought to raise a NotImplemented exception when > readline is called. > > As it is it silently causes interactive applications to > apparently hang forever, and breaks the line-buffering > expectation of non-interactive applications.
Does it work if stdin is a pipe? If it works then raising NotImplemented doesn't make sense. > If raising the exception is too much to ask, then at least it > should be documented better. Improving documentation is always a good idea. Meanwhile see my solution how to make readline method work: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f1267dc612314657 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
