urllib (and urllib2) read all data from page on open()?

[Bengt Richter]

On 15 Mar 2005 00:18:10 -0800, "Fuzzyman" <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Bengt Richter wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:48:25 -0000, "Alex Stapleton"
><alexs at advfn.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Whilst it might be able to do what I want I feel this to be a flaw
>in urllib
>> >that should be fixed, or at least added to a buglist somewhere so I
>can at
>> >least pretend someone other than me cares.
>> >
>> Someone cares about top-posting. Please don't ;-)
>
>Actually for many methods of reading usenet posts, and particularly for
>archived usenet posts - e.g. google groups - selective top posting can
>make threads a lot easier to read.....
>
>Heresy though it may be.....
>
>;-)
>
ISTM reading top-posts is only easier when the top-post is a single global
comment on the quoted text following. Once someone introduces interleaved
comments to focus attention selectively, the simple last-in-first-read stacking
of top-posting no longer applies. Attribution of quotes becomes difficult if
a consistent methodology is not adhered to.

It is difficult to make effective selective comments on a multi-faceted post
using only top-posting. The fact that top-posting works well for single-concept
posts with single-concept comments IMO doesn't compensate for the confusion introduced
when methodology switches in a thread -- and a switch to interleaved posting is almost
inevitable once a post accumulates more than one thing to comment on. Hence IMO it's best
to start out in interleaved mode and stick with it ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter