Op 2005-08-23, rafi schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> In that case you wouldn't return an empty sequence if you wanted >> a false value in a sequence context but would throw an exception. >> So this would be fine by me, I just don't understand how this >> would support the use of empty sequences as false. >> >> I also don't see how a read from a network connection returning >> either: >> >> a bytestring when data is available, >> '' when no data is available >> None when the connection was closed > > I do not get why returning '' when no data is available? If no data is > available then nothing is returned, the function hangs. (Which is the > cas for receive)
Network connections can be configured to either block or return immediatly when no data is available. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
