On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:34:45 +0200
"Giampaolo Rodola'"
With current socket.sendall() implementation if an error occurs it's impossible to tell how much data was sent. As such I'm wondering whether it would make sense to add a "counter" parameter which gets incremented internally:
sent = 0 try: sock.sendall(data, counter=sent) except socket.error as err: priint("only %s bytes were sent" % sent)
This would both allow to not lose information on error and avoid keeping track of the total data being sent, which usually requires and extra len() call. E.g. when sending a file:
file = open('somefile', 'rb') total = 0 while True: chunk = file.read(8192) if not chunk: break sock.sendall(chunk, counter=total)
Why not simply use send() in such cases? (or, if you want something file-like, call makefile() and then write()) Regards Antoine.