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[Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan]

Thanks for the shutil.copyfileobj.
Oddly, the EOFError didnt work though.

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> 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.
>
>