On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 at 08:48, Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You can't validate an IP packet without having all of it. Your notion > > of "streaming" is nonsensical. > > Whoa, whoa, hold your horses! "nonsensical" needs a little bit of > justification :) > > It seems you don't understand the difference between words and > languages! In my examples, IP _protocol_ is the language, sequences of > IP packets are the words in the language. A language is amenable to > streaming if the words of the language are repetition of sequences of > symbols of the alphabet of fixed length. This is, essentially, like > saying that the words themselves are regular.
One single IP packet is all you can parse. You're playing shenanigans with words the way Humpty Dumpty does. IP packets are not sequences, they are individuals. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
