[Reposting to the general list too] Lloyd Kvam wrote: > Sockets deal with packetized data. The network protocols do not guarantee > keeping the data in line oriented chunks - even if the data starts out > that way. > > You need to deal with extracting lines from chunks. So long as the > connection is > working properly, this is easy. The challenge occurs when the remainder > of a line > never gets delivered. The best strategy depends upon the details of > what you are > doing.
I understand that. In Python using sockets is like using sockets in C. However, I was looking for a python equivalent of the perl idiom of opening a socket and getting a file handle ... and then reading this file handle as any other line oriented file using $socket->readline I am trying to write a simple Netcraft style script which tries the HEAD method on a webserver and reads the Server: header from the response. I would not like to use urllib, because even a call to something like urllib.info() reads in the complete webpage on an open(). Even if this particular problem could be done elegantly, I would be interested to know the answer to my original question because the feature of reading a line at a time from a socket will help me in a lot of other places in the future. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.com Home: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
