Irmen de Jong wrote: > This also raises the question to what extent Python itself should > work around platform specific "peculiarities", such as this one. > There's another problem with socket code on Windows and VMS systems, > where you get strange exceptions when using a "too big" recv() buffer.
what's a "strange exception" and a "too big" buffer? > Things like this force me into writing all sorts of error checking > code or platform specific functions, to work around these bugs. > Just for what was supposed to be a simple socket recv() and a > simple socket send()... if you want buffering, use makefile(). relying on platform-specific behaviour isn't a good way to write portable code. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list