why does socket.makefile require non-blocking mode?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:15:56 -0300, Forest <tibit at sonic.net> escribió:

> My main concern is this:  A brief look at the existing socket._fileobject
> shows that its read() method calls recv() in a loop, appending to a
> temporary buffer on each pass, and finally returning the buffer when
> recv() gets no more data.  It looks to me like a socket timeout exception
> would cause that loop to exit without saving the data collected in  
> earlier
> passes.  In other words, data loss on recv() timeout.

Just do it. Do the experiment; if there is data loss, you prove your point  
(if not, it doesn't prove that data loss could not happen).

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Gabriel Genellina