[Python-Dev] fileobj.read(float): warning or error? (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Tue Jul 22 21:56:31 CEST 2008


On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote: [...]

Leaving aside the 0.2 => 0 converstion, shouldn't read() raise an exception if asked for < 1 bytes? Or is there a legitimate use for read(0) with which I was not previously aware?

http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html

read([size])

... If the size argument is negative or omitted, read all data until EOF is reached. ...

John



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