[Python-Dev] non-blocking sockets and sendall

[Guido van Rossum]

> I'm having issues with using socket.sendall() and non-blocking sockets 
> in python 2.3a1.  When sending large data chunks I receive a 
> socket.error #11 'Resource temporarily unavailable' in the middle of 
> the method.  I believe this is due to a missing select call in the send 
> loop.
> 
> My question is whether or not sendall() is supported by socket objects 
> in non-blocking mode?  If not, then perhaps this should be noted in the 
> documentation... if so, then i'll submit a bug report on the python 
> sourceforge site.

I think using non-blocking sockets and using sendall are
incompatible.  So yes, a documentation patch would be appropriate.

Thanks for pointing this out!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)