I just got shocked to find out the hard way that the read() method on Python's file objects will, very much unlike the C read() function, read until the given size is reached, which is quite a problem for me when selecting a couple of pipes and wanting to just read the available data from them.
The only hint I can find for avoiding this behavior is from file.read.__doc__, which says that it doesn't do that in non-blocking mode, but nowhere can I find any information about how to enable non-blocking mode in Python. Can anyone provide me with any information on how to accomplish this? Regards, Fredrik Tolf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
