On 5 Oct 2006 07:01:50 -0700, SpreadTooThin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >Jean-Paul many thanks for this and your effort. >but why is it every time I try to do something with 'stock' python I >need another package?
Maybe you are trying to do things that are too complex :) >By the time I've finished my project there are like 5 3rd party add-ons >to be installed. I don't generally find this to be problematic. >I know I'm a python newbie... but I'm far from a developer newbie and >that can be a recipe for >disaster. Not every library can be part of the standard library, neither can the standard library satisfy every possible use-case. Relying on 3rd party modules isn't a bad thing. >The stock socket should work and I think I've missed an >obvious bug in the code other >than checking the return status. > Well, I did mention one bug other than failure to check return values. Maybe you missed it, since it was in the middle. Go back and re-read my response. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
