readline() blocks after select() says there's data??

[Richard Cook]

That's a good point.  My actual problem turns out that I had the 
first two parameters to select.select() reversed, though.  :-|

At 10:57 AM -0600 3/15/02, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Rich> I don't really need select to block.  I just want it to be
>     Rich> accurate.  If it returns a file object in the list of things which
>     Rich> are available, why should then readline() block on it?
>
>Remember that select() is lower level than readline().  As someone else
>pointed out, select() may return because there is data available, but it
>makes no promises about what that data is.  Calling readline() may then hang
>waiting for other conditions (presence of a newline in the input, for
>example).
>
>--
>Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)


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