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[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:53:58 -0300, Wojtek Walczak <gminick at bzt.bzt> escribió:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:18:37 +0530, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote:
>
>> Im trying to download a file from a server. But how do I detect EOF ?
>
> Whenever read() method returns empty string/list.
>
>
>> while f1: # When to stop ?
>      retval = f1.read()
>      if not retval:
>         break
>      f2.write(retval)

Those read() should be read(size) - read() tries to get the whole contents in memory.
Anyway, shutil.copyfileobj already implements that logic.

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Gabriel Genellina