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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-06-17 18:34:40 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1998-06-17 18:34:40 (GMT)
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In class _Subfile, make sure read(n) can't read beyond EOF. Also
allow negative numbers to specify read until EOF (like for a regular file's read() method).
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rwxr-xr-xLib/mailbox.py7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/mailbox.py b/Lib/mailbox.py
index dd8e5e1..0ea4a58 100755
--- a/Lib/mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/mailbox.py
@@ -46,8 +46,11 @@ class _Subfile:
def read(self, length = None):
if self.pos >= self.stop:
return ''
- if length is None:
- length = self.stop - self.pos
+ remaining = self.stop - self.pos
+ if length is None or length < 0:
+ length = remaining
+ elif length > remaining:
+ length = remaining
self.fp.seek(self.pos)
self.pos = self.pos + length
return self.fp.read(length)