On Sep 18, 1:48 pm, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-09-17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems that another solution is gobject.io_add_watch, but I don't > > see how it tells me how much I can read from the file - if I don't > > know that, I won't know the argument to give to the read() method in > > order to get all the data: > > >http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygobject/gobject-functions.html#function-g... > > Usually, gobject only tells you that data is there (that is all it knows). > Therefore a read(1) should be safe.
But even if it's fast enough, how do you know how many times you should call read(1)? If you do it too much, you'll be blocked until more output is available. > If that is too slow, consider os.read() which reads all data available (afaik, > never tried it myself). > I tried it now, and it blocks just like the normal file.read(). Thanks, Noam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
