Issue #16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores

BlockingIOError exceptions. Initial patch written by Xavier de Gaye.

Document also in asyncore documentation that recv() may raise BlockingIOError.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
index 0adf8d9..917d044 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ any that have been added to the map during asynchronous service) is closed.
       empty bytes object implies that the channel has been closed from the
       other end.
 
+      Note that :meth:`recv` may raise :exc:`BlockingIOError` , even though
+      :func:`select.select` or :func:`select.poll` has reported the socket
+      ready for reading.
+
 
    .. method:: listen(backlog)