Forest wrote: > The socket.makefile() docs say, "the socket must be in blocking mode." I > don't see any explanation of why blocking mode is required, and I'm not sure > whether that means timeout mode is forbidden as well. Can someone clarify > this?
Looking at the code for the existing _fileobject's read method, it will loose data it has already read if a socket.recv() call raises an exception. The function keeps buffers in a local variable that will be lost if an exception exits the scope. That much could be fixed with a try...finally. Other methods have similar problems. > I wanted to use file-like objects with socket timeouts, so I ended up writing > my own replacement for socket._fileobject. I'd appreciate it if someone could > either explain to my why my new class was unnecessary, or else encourage me to > contribute it as a patch to the socket module. Sure, fix it. A harder problem is that it doesn't play nice with select(). -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
