On 13 Apr 2009 01:45:56 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:21:34 +0200, Ryniek90 wrote:
When i wanted to send an .iso file of 4GB length, i had traceback:
"OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string
can hold"
Sockets are being used in every network app, i.e: p2p progs (like
BitTorrent), and exchanged data is often bigger than 4GB.
But they don't transfer the entire file as ONE packet. Split your data
into smaller packets. I don't know what a good size for each packet would
be, but if I were doing this, I'd probably start with 4096 or 8192
*bytes*.
Everything in that paragraph is true, but it's rather misleading. The
size of the packets you send is *not* determined by the length of the
string you pass to socket.send. Packet size in a TCP connection is
determined by various things beyond the control of an application using
the BSD socket API.
Jean-Paul
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