Well, I've never used it, but sockets do have the makefile method. That would seem to fit what you're trying to do.
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > [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 > -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 801-459-9582 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
