[Python-3000] bug in i/o module buffering?

[Guido van Rossum]

More interesting is, what's b?

2007/10/27, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com>:
> In the following, 'n' is equal to 0 (read from a non-blocking socket).
> Is this a bug in the I/O module buffering?
>
> Bill
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 222, in handle_request
>     self.process_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 241, in process_request
>     self.finish_request(request, client_address)
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 254, in finish_request
>     self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 522, in __init__
>     self.handle()
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 330, in handle
>     self.handle_one_request()
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 313, in handle_one_request
>     self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline()
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/io.py", line 391, in readline
>     b = self.read(nreadahead())
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/io.py", line 377, in nreadahead
>     readahead = self.peek(1, unsafe=True)
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/io.py", line 778, in peek
>     current = self.raw.read(to_read)
>   File "/local/python/3k/src/Lib/io.py", line 455, in read
>     del b[n:]
> TypeError: 'slice' object does not support item deletion
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