Non blocking IO

[Jp Calderone]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:25:49PM +0000, Graeme Winter wrote:
> Graeme Winter wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "test_blocking.py", line 43, in ?
> >    blocking_test(5)
> >  File "test_blocking.py", line 33, in blocking_test
> >    line = stdout.readline()
> >IOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> >Which I guess means that readline() doesn't like non blocking fd's....

  Write your own wrapper around readline().  You can't expect more than a
single byte to be available when select() returns stdout as available for
reading.  Collect those bytes until you find a newline character, then
handle the line.

  Jp

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