CMCDragonkai

HTTP Streaming (or Chunked vs Store & Forward)

The standard way of understanding the HTTP protocol is via the request reply pattern. Each HTTP transaction consists of a finitely bounded HTTP request and a finitely bounded HTTP response.

However it's also possible for both parts of an HTTP 1.1 transaction to stream their possibly infinitely bounded data. The advantages is that the sender can send data that is beyond the sender's memory limit, and the receiver can act on

ShawnMilo

from uuid import UUID

def validate_uuid4(uuid_string):

    """
    Validate that a UUID string is in
    fact a valid uuid4.

    Happily, the uuid module does the actual
    checking for us.

ulope

"""Simple example showing why using super(self.__class__, self) is a BAD IDEA (tm)"""

class A(object):
    def x(self):
        print "A.x"

class B(A):
    def x(self):
        print "B.x"
        super(B, self).x()