looking for blocking on read of a real file (not socket or pipe)

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Steven" <steven.howe at verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm seeking a read method that will block until new data is available. Is
> there such a python function that does that?

read until end of file, wait a while, seek to position you tried to read from
when you reached the end, and read again.  see:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/157035

(also see the comments, but ignore the last one; he is missing something)

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