On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:39:06 -0800 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2018 04:12, "Random832" <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018, at 05:46, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > If you view them as comparable to subprocess pipes, then it can be > > surprising that they're not iterable when using a line-oriented > > protocol. > > > > If you instead view them as comparable to socket connections, then the > > lack of iteration support seems equally reasonable. > > Sockets are files - there's no fundamental reason a stream socket using a > line-oriented protocol (which is a common enough case), or a datagram > socket, shouldn't be iterable. Why aren't they? > > > Supporting line iteration on sockets would require adding a whole buffering > layer, which would be a huge change in semantics.
The buffering layer already exists. Just call socket.makefile() and you've got your iterable object :-) https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.socket.makefile Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
