Matt Richardson wrote: > Just verifying what I looked up earlier: are strings and binary > (through struct.pack) the only data types that can be sent through a > socket? This is my first crack at socket programming, so I'll probably > have lots of questions to bug you with.
The socket library gives low-level access to socket connections. At this level, the only type of data is a byte stream which in Python is represented by a string. There are higher-level protocols that support more structured data. You can use the pickle module to convert most data structures to strings which can be sent over a socket. XML-RPC is a remote procedure call standard that supports simple data structures; it is supported in xmlrpclib and SimpleXMLRPCServer. PyRO is another remote object protocol that is Python-specific. What is it you want to do? Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
