[Python-ideas] BufferedIO and detach

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sunday, March 3, 2013, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

> Guido van Rossum <guido at ...> writes:
> > When the io module was originally designed, this was actually one of
> > the (implied) use cases -- one reason I wanted to stop using C stdio
> > was that I didn't like that there is no standard way to get at the
> > data in the buffer, in similar use cases as you're trying to present.
> > (A use case I could think of would be an http server that forks a
> > subprocess after reading e.g. the first line of the http request, or
> > perhaps after the headers.)
>
> What was the API that provided this in the Python version of the io module?


I think it may not have ben more than accessing private instance
variables. :-)

(Note it still mostly lives as Lib/_pyio.py)
>

That won't help a concrete use case though, will it?

--Guido


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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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