Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> added the comment:
> It would be a non-seekable in-memory bytes buffer with distinct > read and write pointers, so as to act like a system FIFO or a > socket.makefile() object. What would it do when the equivalent system FIFO object would block? > (you may point to os.pipe() but it has problems such as limited buffer > size: try to write many bytes to the write end and it will block until > the other end tries to read something) In the past, I've gotten around that limitation by using threads (which, admittedly, certainly had its own drawbacks) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9939> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com