Except wouldn't it of already read the entire file when it opened, or does it occour on the first read()? Also will the data returned from handle.read(100) be raw HTTP? In which case what if the encoding is chunked or gzipped?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fuzzyman Sent: 14 March 2005 14:01 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: urllib (and urllib2) read all data from page on open()? Certianly under urllib2 - handle.read(100) will read the next 100 bytes (up to) from the handle. Which is the same beahviour as the read method for files..... Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
