[Pythonmac-SIG] urllib problem

[Tattoo Mabonzo K.]

Yo,

I got caught by that one already.

But as always, Jack was quick to point to the solution. Please below. I =
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his answer.

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Hi,
that's not broken, it's only strange. There is absolutely no guarantee =
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much a read() on a socket will return. The correct way to read all data =
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do
  x =3D urllib.urlopen(....)
  alldata =3D ''
  while 1:
    next =3D x.read()
    if not next: break
    alldata =3D alldata + next

However, as it often happens on unix that you get all data in one read =
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and sometimes on MacOS too, it's easy to think that read should return=20=

everything.

Note that read() on files does guarantee that it returns all data.

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On Wednesday, December 27, 2000, at 12:11 AM, Moroo Jun wrote:

> I tried to run follow program, Python 1.5.2c get all text from web =
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> but Python 2.0 doesn't.=20
> In Solaris 2.6, the same program can get all text from web site both =
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> Python 1.5.2 and Python 2.0.=20
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> import urllib=20
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> a=3Durllib.urlopen("http://www.yahoo.co.jp/")=20
> d=3Da.read()=20
> f=3Dopen("yahoo.html","wb")=20
> f.write(d)=20
> f.close()=20
> a.close()=20
> --- End ---=20
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> I tried them on:=20
> Powerbook G3/333 OS 8.6=20
> PowerMacintosh 9600/233 OS 9.0=20
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> moroo@jp.fujitsu.co.jp=20
> Fujitsu Laboratories LTD.=20
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