Package wtf :: Module stream

Module stream

In order to use the stream, you need to supply an actual implementation of the low level octet stream. This stream implementation is useful in order to decorate other streams and not implement the full API every time.

Author: André Malo

Classes

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GenericStream
Represents a buffered stream

MinimalSocketStream
Minimal stream out of a socket

Functions

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str

_read_exact(read, size)
Read exactly size bytes with read, except on EOF source code

str

read_exact(stream, size)
Read exactly size bytes from stream, except on EOF

source code

Variables

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GenericStream dev_null = GenericStream(dev_null())
/dev/null like stream (EOF on reading, doing nothing on writing)

__package__ = 'wtf'

Function Details

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_read_exact(read, size)

source code

Read exactly size bytes with read, except on EOF

Parameters:

read (callable) - The reading function
size (int) - expected number of bytes

Returns: str

The read bytes

read_exact(stream, size)

source code

Read exactly size bytes from stream, except on EOF

Parameters:

stream (file) - The stream to read from.
size (int) - expected number of bytes

Returns: str

The read bytes