[Twisted-Python] non-blocking .read

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:13:41 -0600
Moshe Zadka <moshez at twistedmatrix.org> wrote:

> It is often convenient in protocol implementations to just .read() as
> much as you want to. However, it is impossible in Twisted, becase
> .read() is a blocking operation. Happily, we can make blocking
> operations seem non-blocking with the use of deferred. The following
> protocol does just that:

I suspect it will be waaaaaaaay slower than the equivalent netstring
implementation.

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