[Python-Dev] py34 makes it harder to read all of a pty (original) (raw)

Buck Evan buck.2019 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 23:26:39 CET 2014


Note that this is a fully unbuffered read.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Charles-François Natali < cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:

2014-11-12 22:16 GMT+00:00 Buck Golemon <buck.2019 at gmail.com>: > This is due to the fix for issue21090, which aimed to un-silence errors > which previously went unheard. The fix is for me, as a user, to write a loop > that uses os.read and interpretes EIO as EOF. This is what I had hoped > file.read() would do for me, however, and what it used to do in previous > pythons.

There's no reason for read() to interpret EIO as EOF in the general case: it was masked in previous versions because of a mere bug. The behavior is now correct, although being able to retrieve the data read so far in case of a buffered read could be useful. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20141116/f5324f45/attachment.html>



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