non blocking read()

[Gustavo Córdova Avila]

David Bolen wrote:

>Jp Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> writes:
>
>>    def nonBlockingReadAll(fileObj):
>>        bytes = []
>>        while True:
>>            b = fileObj.read(1024)
>>            bytes.append(b)
>>            if len(b) < 1024:
>>                break
>>        return ''.join(bytes)
>>
>Wouldn't this still block if the input just happened to end at a
>multiple of the read size (1024)?
>
>-- David
>
No, it'll read up to 1024 bytes or as much as it can, and
then return an apropriatly sized string.
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