I'm using Python poster module 0.8.1 and I was wondering if it possible to increase default upload buffer size or 'blocksize' ? I found that default buffer size is 4096 bytes ( http://atlee.ca/software/poster/poster.encode.html#poster.encode.MultipartParam.iter_encode ) I tried to search some hints in documentation but no luck.
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The API does not give you the opportunity to set the blocksize, no.
You can increase the buffer by patching the constant on the function:
from poster.encode import MultipartParam
iter_encode = MultipartParam.iter_encode.im_func # function object
iter_encode.func_defaults = (8192,) # set new defaults, a 1-element tuple
The .func_defaults parameter of functions can be replaced at will, just make sure you replace it with a tuple of equal length.