> Line oriented network protocols are very common, and I often find myself > calling the socket makefile method so I can read complete lines from a > socket. I'm probably not the first one who's wished that socket objects > where more file-like. > > While I don't think we'd want to go as far as to turn them into a stdio > based file object, it might make sense to allow them to be iterated over > (and add a .readline() method, I guess). This would necessitate adding some > input buffering, which will complicate things like the .recv() method, so > I'm not sure it's that good an idea, but it removes one gotchya for > neophytes (and forgetful veterans). Thoughts? Um, why doesn't the makefile() method do what you want? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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