On 2006-10-19, Leo Kislov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You're right, it does work in that case. Excellent! So my second speculation about it breaking non-interactive applications was false. I should have peeked at the code before babbling. Sorry about that. That it might be using an internal buffer never occurred to me. >> 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 Thanks for that solution. That'll do nicely. The moral I'm discovering is: Don't try to write an interactive application in Python that uses stdin and stdout unless it's strictly a toy program. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
