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The current implementation of asynchat.async_chat.initiate_send method
doesn't look at what is specified in ac_out_buffer_size attribute which
represents the buffer size of the outgoing data defaulting to a maximum
of 4096 bytes to send in a single socket.send() call.
Note that this only happens when sending the data by using a producer
through the use of the push_with_producer method.
This happens because while the older asynchat version used slicing for
buffering:
> num_sent = self.send(self.ac_out_buffer[:obs]) # obs == ac_out_buffer_size
...the newer version just calls self.send using the entire data as
argument without caring of what ac_out_buffer_size thinks about it:
> num_sent = self.send(first)
What is specified in ac_out_buffer_size when using a producer is just
ignored and the only way to have control over the outgoing data buffer
is to operate directly on the producer.