Walter Dörwald wrote:
There are situations where the byte stream might be temporarily
exhausted, e.g. an XML parser that tries to support the
IncrementalParser interface, or when you want to decode
encoded data piecewise, because you want to give a progress
report.
Yes, but these are not file-like objects. In the IncrementalParser,
it is *not* the case that a read operation returns an empty
string. Instead, the application repeatedly feeds data explicitly.
For a file-like object, returning "" indicates EOF.
Regards,
Martin
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