socket script from perl -> python

[Hrvoje Niksic]

kettle <Josef.Robert.Novak at gmail.com> writes:

> # pack $length as a 32-bit network-independent long
> my $len = pack('N', $length);
[...]
> the sticking point seems to be the $len variable.

Use len = struct.pack('!L', length) in Python.  See
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html for details.