On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:17:10 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was considering a FileIO.writelines() implementation based on > writev() and I noticed that the current RawIO.writelines() > implementation is broken: RawIO.write() can return a partial write but > writelines() ignores the result and happily proceeds to the next > iterator item (and None is returned at the end). > > (it's probably broken with non-blocking streams too, for the same > reason) > > In the spirit of RawIO.write(), I think RawIO.writelines() could return > the number of bytes written (allowing for partial writes).
Another possibility would be a separate RawIO.writev() that would allow partial writes, and to fix RawIO.writelines() to always do complete writes. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
