Paul Boddie wrote: > This is one of the more reliable methods since upon receiving a packet > "delimiter" the receiver knows that the data is complete.
and for people who want <strong>RELIABLE</strong> and not just "at least not entirely unreliable", there's always: http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt (if you control both ends, there's hardly ever any reason not to use netstrings. they're trivial to generate from Python, and pretty simple to parse.). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list