Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What you are missing is that if the recv ever returns no bytes at all
> then the other end has closed the connection. So something like this
> is the correct thing to write :-
>
> data = ""
> while True:
> new = client.recv(256)
> if not new:
> break
> data += new
This is a good case for the iter() function:
buf = cStringIO.StringIO()
for new in iter(partial(client.recv, 256), ''):
buf.write(new)
data = buf.getvalue()
Note that appending to a string is almost never a good idea, since it
can result in quadratic allocation.
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