On Thursday, July 12, 2012, Russell E. Owen wrote:

> I'm adding Twisted support to some existing communication code and I
> have a few questions which I hope are simple. I've been reading the API
> documentation, but if the answers are there I'm missing them.
>
> What happens if one tries to write to a protocol.transport that is not
> connected or in an error state? (I'm hoping that this case has defined
> behavior and that it will raise an exception).


Not connected usually means that protocol.transport is None


>
> Is there some way to query a protocol to see if it is in a good state
> (connected and no errors)? I realize with callbacks this is not usually
> necessary, but I have a case where it would be helpful (though I can
> probably manage without it).


Can you elaborate on the case?


>
> When reading raw bytes, is there any way to get the bytes from the
> protocol? I assume not: that if one wants to buffer the data one must do
> that in the callback. If so, does Twisted provide a suitable buffer
> class?


The protocol gets dataReceivrd called. What kind of buffering do you want
to do and why? Would a simple StringIO suffice?


>
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cheers
lvh
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