This is a continuation of the thread 'reading an input stream' I had to walk away from for a few days due to the holidays and then other work considerations, and I figured it best to break my confusion into separate chunks, I hope that's appropriate. In short, my script needs to read a stream of xml data from a socket (port 2008), the data coming in from as many as 30 different machines, but usually 4 or less, as many as 3 messages per second from each machine at times, messages block format delimited by stx(\x02) and etx (\x03), send the data in those blocks to a parser (already built using lxml and an xslt file) and send it out to splunk using a native 'event writer'.
Once I figure out how to get the messages in and read in general (my current test file has only one message) I'll need to figure out how to pull them, one at a time (one message from stx to etx) and send to the parser. I am totally lost here. Once I can get the data read from stream rather from file, how do I write the part of the script that recognizes block format? I've looked for libraries but am apparently not writing a good search, as I always get sites that discuss blocking and non-blocking sockets, not block format messages. Is there a library or tutorial out there anyone knows of that might help with this? regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
