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[Steve Holden]

Peter Otten wrote:
> Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
> 
>>What struck me was
>>
>>
>>>>> gen = byblocks(StringIO.StringIO('no'),1024,len('end?')-1)
>>>>> [gen.next() for i in xrange(10)]
>>
>>['no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no', 'no']
> 
> 
> Ouch. Seems like I spotted the subtle cornercase error and missed the big
> one.
> 

No, you just realised subconsciously that we'd all spot the obvious one 
and decided to point out the bug that would remain after the obvious one 
had been fixed.

regards
  Steve
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