On 2005-09-13, Jacek Pop³awski <[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.
You're right. I must have been remembering the behavior of a
network socket. Apparently, you're supposed to read a single
byte and then call select() again. That seems pretty lame.
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