Note that reading from a socket may not always return all of the

remaining content of a stream when expected to do so.
Closes SF bug #725265.  Should be backported to Python 2.3.x.
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Fred Drake 2004-03-25 16:51:12 +00:00
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@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ file-like object is returned. This supports the following methods:
\method{read()}, \method{readline()}, \method{readlines()}, \method{fileno()},
\method{close()}, \method{info()} and \method{geturl()}. It also has
proper support for the iterator protocol.
One caveat: the \method{read()} method, if the size argument is
omitted or negative, may not read until the end of the data stream;
there is no good way to determine that the entire stream from a socket
has been read in the general case.
Except for the \method{info()} and \method{geturl()} methods,
these methods have the same interface as for