[Python-Dev] Passing actual read size to urllib reporthook

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Nov 20 13:20:01 CET 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> While this is a behavior change (and even for
> explicitly-documented behavior), I still propose
> to apply the change:
> - in many cases, the number of bytes read will
>  equal to the block size, so no change should
>  occur
> - the signature (number of parameters) does not
>  change, so applications shouldn't crash because
>  of that change
> - applications that do use the parameter to
>  estimate total download time now get a better
>  chance to estimate since they learn about
>  short reads.

haven't used the reporthook, but my reading of the documentation would have led me
to believe that I should do count*blocksize to determine how much data I've gotten this
far.  changing the blocksize without setting the count to zero would break such code.

</F> 





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