Jacek Popławski wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2005-09-12, Jacek Pop?awski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> ready = select.select(tocheck, [], [], 0.25) ##continues >>>> after 0.25s >>>> for file in ready[0]: >>>> try: >>>> text = os.read(file, 1024) >>> >>> >>> How do you know here, that you should read 1024 characters? >>> What will happen when output is shorter? >> >> It will return however much data is available. > > My tests showed, that it will block.
Not if you use non-blocking sockets, as I believe you are expected to when using select(). -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list