Python Socket programming

[srinivasan srinivas]

Hi,
I am going to do some socket related programming in Python. Before that, I wish to know the Gotchas of Python Scoket Programming.
Can anyone send me any link that satisfies my needs??
Thanks,
Srini


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[Dan Stromberg]

Re: Python Socket programming

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:59:06 +0530, srinivasan srinivas wrote:

Hi,
I am going to do some socket related programming in Python. Before that,
I wish to know the Gotchas of Python Scoket Programming. Can anyone send
me any link that satisfies my needs?? Thanks,
Srini
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IMO, there aren't many.

Some methods require a tuple where you might think they shouldn't need
one.

And you have to be careful not to make assumptions about, say, writing n
bytes in your server and reading n bytes in the client - you may not get
all n right away. TCP is free to split or aggregate your chunks as it
sees fit. So you need some sort of record terminator or something,
rather than assuming transfer sizes will be preserved by TCP. Often they
will be preserved, but they aren't guaranteed to be. But this is true of
just about any language with a socket interface.

For the latter issue (the chunk size thing), I put together http://
stromberg.dnsal ias.org/~strombrg/bufsock.html

[William McBrine]

Re: Python Socket programming

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:59:06 +0530, srinivasan srinivas wrote:

I am going to do some socket related programming in Python. Before that,
I wish to know the Gotchas of Python Scoket Programming.

The only gotcha I see is that you won't want to go back to doing it in C.

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