[Python-Dev] Fixing send()

[Guido van Rossum]

[Jeremy]
> Can you offer a brief explanation of why we're doing this after all?
> I thought we concluded yesterday that we would fix this library.
> (That's what the last message before this one said.)

Fixing the library would mean adding a loop like this to each
application that uses send and currently doesn't check the return
value:

<    sock.send(data)
---
>    while data:
>        n = sock.send(data)
>        data = data[n:]

I find this more attractive:

<    sock.send(data)
---
>    sock.sendall(data)

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