[Python-Dev] py34 makes it harder to read all of a pty

[Buck Evan]

Note that this is a fully unbuffered read.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Charles-François Natali <
cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014-11-12 22:16 GMT+00:00 Buck Golemon <buck.2019 at gmail.com>:
> > This is due to the fix for issue21090, which aimed to un-silence errors
> > which previously went unheard. The fix is for me, as a user, to write a
> loop
> > that uses os.read and interpretes EIO as EOF. This is what I had hoped
> > file.read() would do for me, however, and what it used to do in previous
> > pythons.
>
>
> There's no reason for read() to interpret EIO as EOF in the general
> case: it was masked in previous versions because of a mere bug. The
> behavior is now correct, although being able to retrieve the data read
> so far in case of a buffered read could be useful.
>
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