From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:22:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Ignore sizehint argument. Fixes SF #844561.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~767
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d594849c42b6141622f8e442e26b49e2df6ef4ff;p=python

Ignore sizehint argument. Fixes SF #844561.
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diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index 061bc1cdff..92c6feff31 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -303,14 +303,11 @@ class StreamReader(Codec):
             Line breaks are implemented using the codec's decoder
             method and are included in the list entries.
 
-            sizehint, if given, is passed as size argument to the
-            stream's .read() method.
+            sizehint, if given, is ignored since there is no efficient
+            way to finding the true end-of-line.
 
         """
-        if sizehint is None:
-            data = self.stream.read()
-        else:
-            data = self.stream.read(sizehint)
+        data = self.stream.read()
         return self.decode(data, self.errors)[0].splitlines(1)
 
     def reset(self):
@@ -488,10 +485,7 @@ class StreamRecoder:
 
     def readlines(self, sizehint=None):
 
-        if sizehint is None:
-            data = self.reader.read()
-        else:
-            data = self.reader.read(sizehint)
+        data = self.reader.read()
         data, bytesencoded = self.encode(data, self.errors)
         return data.splitlines(1)