On Apr 26, 7:25 am, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Until now, I've been
> > doing this little trick:
>
> > data = client.recv(256)
> > new = data
> > while len(new) == 256:
> >     new = client.recv(256)
> >     data += new
>
> Are you aware that recv() will not always return the amount of bytes asked 
> for?
> (send() is similar; it doesn't guarantee that the full buffer you pass to it 
> will be
> sent at once)
>
> I suggest reading this:http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/sockets/sockets.html
>
> --irmen

So every time I use I want to send some thing, I must use

totalsent = 0
while sent < len(data):
    sent = sock.send(data[totalsent:])
    totalsent += sent

instead of a simple sock.send(data)? That's kind of nasty. Also, is it
better then to use sockets as file objects? Maybe unbuffered?
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