[issue7322] Socket timeout can cause file-like readline() method to lose data

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

While this patch looks conformant to the documentation, it is very likely to break code in the wild. Even in the stdlib, there are uses of makefile() + socket timeouts (e.g. in http.client and urllib). It would be better to find a way to make readline() functional even with socket timeouts.

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