Re: telnet.read_until() from telnetlib

my newsreader told me that sp1d3rx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "If end of file is found and no text was read, raise EOFError.
> Otherwise, when nothing matches, return (-1, None, text) where text is
> the text received so far (may be the empty string if a timeout
> happened). "

What if:
- exception has not been raised
and:
- time passed is smaller than timeout?
How to interpret such behaviour?


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