Fredrik Lundh wrote: > 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
That's why I hedged my bets and put "one of the more" rather than "the most" in that sentence. ;-) I've been using netstrings myself, although I didn't know that they had that particular name. > (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.). Indeed. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list