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A filter <em>must</em> be closed once the EOS has been encountered. <P> If the <var>len</var> argument is negative or omitted, reads all data currently available. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-169' xml:id='l2h-169' class="method">readline</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>length</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Reads a line from the next filter or up to <var>length</var> bytes. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-170' xml:id='l2h-170' class="method">write</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var>string</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Writes <var>string</var> to the next filter. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-171' xml:id='l2h-171' class="method">flush</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Flushes the output by sending a FLUSH bucket. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-172' xml:id='l2h-172' class="method">close</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Closes the filter and sends an EOS bucket. Any further IO operations on this filter will throw an exception. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-173' xml:id='l2h-173' class="method">disable</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Tells mod_python to ignore the provided handler and just pass the data on. 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