[Pythonmac-SIG] Problems with urllib?

[Jack Jansen]

On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 06:15  PM, Yair Benita wrote:

> I try to run a simple query using urllib. For example:
>
> import urllib
>
> x=urllib.urlopen("http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-
> bin/emblfetch?db=embl&format=fast
> a&style=raw&id=AB002378")
> print x.read()
>
> It looks like macpython is trying to read x before it is 
> finished loading,
> resulting in incomplete files.

The problem is slightly different: MacPython may do short reads 
on sockets. I've always maintained that this was correct (which 
reasoning was quietly accepted by everyone here), but last year 
I finally admitted that it may actually be incorrect (which was 
again quietly accepted:-)

Could you please file a sourceforge bug report?

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