Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment:
I tried changing it to REASONABLY_LARGE and could see no test failures. It
seems the literal was added as part of a220e67a9ed94d66b81e393a3bb9e6acd10068c1
(23/03/1996) and REASONABLY_LARGE was before that as added part of
New submission from Jim Jewett :
binhex defines a module-wide constant of
REASONABLY_LARGE = 32768 # Minimal amount we pass the rle-coder
Later on, in 5 locations it does either ifp.read(128000) or
ifp.read_rsrc(128000)
It isn't clear why a different constant is used, let alone why a
