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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-03-25 16:51:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-03-25 16:51:12 (GMT) |
| commit | 504ca68e20e01a42d89431a4562b3a72c9d62961 (patch) | |
| tree | 037c46c3a18513825e108a75db65abecf4194c8d /Doc | |
| parent | 267b062432f2ccda3531080d874cc03afd0fdf22 (diff) | |
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Note that reading from a socket may not always return all of the
remaining content of a stream when expected to do so.
Closes SF bug #725265. Should be backported to Python 2.3.x.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/liburllib.tex | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex index a2ebc32..47348c1 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ file-like object is returned. This supports the following methods: \method{read()}, \method{readline()}, \method{readlines()}, \method{fileno()}, \method{close()}, \method{info()} and \method{geturl()}. It also has proper support for the iterator protocol. +One caveat: the \method{read()} method, if the size argument is +omitted or negative, may not read until the end of the data stream; +there is no good way to determine that the entire stream from a socket +has been read in the general case. Except for the \method{info()} and \method{geturl()} methods, these methods have the same interface as for |