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Indicate the purpose of the dummy changelog file in itself. Otherwise people getting an error message with an old installation might wonder why this file is corrupted.
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
date Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:03:53 +0100
parents 345bac2bc4ec
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# httprangereader.py - just what it says
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

import byterange, urllib2

class httprangereader(object):
    def __init__(self, url):
        self.url = url
        self.pos = 0
    def seek(self, pos):
        self.pos = pos
    def read(self, bytes=None):
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(byterange.HTTPRangeHandler())
        urllib2.install_opener(opener)
        req = urllib2.Request(self.url)
        end = ''
        if bytes:
            end = self.pos + bytes - 1
        req.add_header('Range', 'bytes=%d-%s' % (self.pos, end))
        f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        data = f.read()
        if bytes:
            data = data[:bytes]
        return data