Rod Morehead <rm...@rmore.net> added the comment: Isn't the call to read(1) blocking in this case?
If so the only reason it should spin would be if it returned an empty string representing EOF. Couldn't we just add a check for an empty string and, if found, raise an EOF exception? ---------- nosy: +rmore _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5949> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com