Determining EOF character
John W. Baxter
jwbnews at scandaroon.com
Tue Feb 20 00:11:41 EST 2001
In article <mailman.982636942.2852.python-list at python.org>, "Chris
Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at usa.net> wrote:
>
> So why does closing the pipe to signal EOF not work? I've written a great
> many programs
> based on that. The writer closes the pipe and terminates, and the reader
> gets EOF and
> continues operation. What am I missing here?
He wants to signal the end of each chunk of data, leaving the pipe open
for the next chunk. I think he needs to define and use an end-of-chunk
sentinal.
--John
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John W. Baxter Port Ludlow, WA USA jwbnews at scandaroon.com
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