Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> 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?
Simply buffer everything. (this is more aimed at mocking sockets than system FIFOs; system FIFOs can be trivially wrapped in a BufferedRWPair) > > (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) Sure, but that's a lot of complication in itself. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
