> My original goal was actually to make response.read(amt) not try to
> make multiple read() calls, so that one could have other delimiters
> than newline.  It is simple for the chunked case, but I don't know
> how to bypass it for response.fp, since it is already a buffered
> file that has no guaranteed such behaviour.... wait, one can simply
> call peek() on it and know how much one can get :)

Or you can use read1()?