Premature sending syndrome... Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> Greetings, since there was no reponse to my previous post about an >> existing FastCGI server in python, I've taken to writing my own. (which >> of course I'll share--*if* there's something to share ;) >> >> My problem now, is that I need to send certain binary data over a >> socket. That is, I want to make some bytes, and stuff them in a TCP >> packet, send them down the pipe, and then listen for a response. >> >> socket.send, as best I can tell, will only send strings. I've read on >> the list other conversations where the recommendation was to use xdrlib >> or struct. But it appears that is only useful when you control the >> client and the server. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but using struct >> just encodes the binary data as a string, right?
Python strings are binary data and can contain - in oppostion to e.g. C-strings - null-bytes. So it is perfectly alright to send "only" strings over a socket. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
