[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/LibSimpleHTTPServer.py,1.10,1.11

[Mark Hammond]

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> > and if I want to, how do I tweak the block size?

[Moshe]
> Just like you would in the old days: subclass SimpleHTTPServer, and
> substitute the copyfile method with a call to shutil.copyfile with a
> non-default size. (IOW, it's easier then what it was before).

I think thats a little of an overkill.  It requires duplicating the entire
method for the sake of one constant.

    def copyfile(self, source, outputfile):
        BLOCKSIZE = 8192

to

    def copyfile(self, source, outputfile, blocksize = 8192):

is much more reasonable IMO.

Mark.