Message 129215 - Python tracker

Message129215

Author	pitrou
Recipients	dabeaz, eric.araujo, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2011-02-23.16:52:33
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It would probably be ok to fallback on read() when read1() isn't implemented. read1() is supposed to be implemented by all BufferedIO-compliant classes, but in all honesty I don't think it's very useful in practice. It's supposed to be an optimization, and I think it's a misguided one; the generalized prefetch() primitive I proposed last year would certainly be more useful: see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/104194.html

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It would probably be ok to fallback on read() when read1() isn't implemented. read1() is supposed to be implemented by all BufferedIO-compliant classes, but in all honesty I don't think it's very useful in practice. It's supposed to be an optimization, and I think it's a misguided one; the generalized prefetch() primitive I proposed last year would certainly be more useful: see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/104194.html

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-23 16:52:35	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, vstinner, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, dabeaz
2011-02-23 16:52:35	pitrou	set	messageid: <1298479955.67.0.634680584304.issue10791@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-02-23 16:52:33	pitrou	link	issue10791 messages
2011-02-23 16:52:33	pitrou	create