From 504ca68e20e01a42d89431a4562b3a72c9d62961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:51:12 +0000 Subject: 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. --- Doc/lib/liburllib.tex | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v0.12