while c = f.read(1)

[rafi]

Antoon Pardon wrote:

> In that case you wouldn't return an empty sequence if you wanted
> a false value in a sequence context but would throw an exception.
> So this would be fine by me, I just don't understand how this
> would support the use of empty sequences as false.
> 
> I also don't see how a read from a network connection returning
> either:
> 
>   a bytestring    when data is available, 
>   ''              when no data is available
>   None            when the connection was closed

I do not get why returning '' when no data is available? If no data is 
available then nothing is returned, the function hangs. (Which is the 
cas for receive)

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rafi

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