ken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I call urlopen.read() like this:
>
> data = urlopen("http://localhost";).read().
>
> Does that mean I will read the whole document to data, regardless how
> many data being sent back?
>
> Thank you.
>
Yes. However you can read (and presumably process)one line at a time
with readline() or by iterating over the object returned by urlopen().
I'd recommend trying something like:
u = urlopen("http://localghost/";)
for line in u:
print line # or process it some other way
or
line = u.readline()
while line:
# process the line
line = u.readline()
There is no need to buffer the whole content before you process it
unless you choose to do so.
regards
Steve
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