nntplib body question

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Peter Melchart" <peter at melchart.com> writes:

> is there any way to load only the first x lines of a post body via nntplib?
> with read callbacks or something similar?

To my knowledge, the NNTP protocol does not support such a query. So
regardless of what the API is, you always have to fetch the entire
body, and throw away all lines you don't want.

Now, keeping only the first x lines of a string is certainly possible
in Python.

Regards,
Martin