Christian Heimes added the comment: size=-1 mimics the code of the io module. The C implementation of readline() maps all negative values to "unlimited" and values >= 0 as limit.
>>> sys.stdin.readline(None) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'NoneType' object cannot be interpreted as an integer ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16042> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
