read method

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read

Reads bytes to fill the specified bytes buffer.

Returns

The number of bytes read. This value can be less than the number of bytes in the buffer if there is not enough bytes in the stream.

def read(self, bytes):
    ...
ParameterTypeDescription
bytesbytesThe bytes to fill.

read

Reads a sequence of bytes from the current stream and advances the position within the stream by the number of bytes read.

Returns

The total number of bytes read into the buffer. This can be less than the number of bytes requested if that many bytes are not currently available, or zero (0) if the end of the stream has been reached.

def read(self, buffer, offset, count):
    ...
ParameterTypeDescription
bufferbytesAn array of bytes. When this method returns, the buffer contains the specified byte array with the values between offset and (offset + count - 1) replaced by the bytes read from the current source.
offsetintThe zero-based byte offset in buffer at which to begin storing the data read from the current stream.
countintThe maximum number of bytes to be read from the current stream.

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