[Python-Dev] Raw I/O writelines() broken

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Aug2012 02:39, Andrea Griffini <agriff at tin.it> wrote:
| On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
| >> In the spirit of RawIO.write(), I think RawIO.writelines() could return
| >> the number of bytes written (allowing for partial writes).
| 
| When dealing with a non-blocking IO what you normally do is use number
| returned from the write call to make next call and try to write the
| remaining part.
| 
| How is this supposed to work with writelines? What is the caller supposed to do?

I'd expect writelines to include such logic within itself, personally.
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