Irmen de Jong schrieb: > In my opinion Python's socket module itself could implement these > workarounds. That would make user code a lot cleaner and less > error prone, and more portable. What do other people think?
It depends: when VMS defines MSG_WAITALL, but doesn't implement it correctly, then Python probably shouldn't expose it. Implementing recv() "splitting" is *not* something that Python could do itself. The question is how you do error reporting for partial results, and neither exception handling nor error codes are particularly well-suited to such an error model: these APIs all assume an all-or-none failure model (i.e. if receiving fails, nothing has happened so far). If you were to split a large recv call into multiple smaller ones, there wouldn't be a good way to communicate both the partial result and the error that you got on the last call. Perhaps you had some different work-around in mind? Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
