[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> No need to reinvent the wheel. socket objects already have a makefile >> method returning a file-like object, which behaves like a buffered socket.
That wheel is far from round, and needs some reinvention. Python's file-like objects do not play nice with lower level calls, which would be tolerable if they supported some well-defiend high-level asynchronous I/O, but they do not. > Newbie question: Can you write to the 'file-like object' a pickle, > and receive it intact-- as one string with nothing else? Yes, but there's a world of gotcha's. Sockets do not recognize record boundaries, and Python's 'pickle' has holes one's enemies could drive a truck through. Still, you can pickle, write, read, un-pickle, and get back your data intact. > I want to know because I want to send two pickles. "Two pickles" sounds like a tasty snack, but also suggests you may be playing hopscotch in a minefield. This is a helpful group. Give us more to go on, and you are likely to receive thousands of dollars worth of consulting for free. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list