socket troubles

[Sean Conley]

I read the socket how-to and it was of no help.  createfilehandler treats
a socket the same as any other filehandle, it just waits for a specific
exception (event) and calls the given callback, straighforward enough. And
as I said, this was a FAR from coplete implementation, I was just trying
to get a very simple client up and running before I worried about
buffering or anything of this nature.  I realize this will be necessary in
the final version as heavy traffic on  a network can play havok with the
amount of data a socket can accept.  Anyhow, your last comment actually
wasn't too far from what my problem was.  I simply needed to send a
carriage return at the end of the message.  Thise done, it works fine and
I can move on.  So, tanks for your suggestion as it seems to have shoved
my thick-headed self in the correct direction.  :o)

Sean

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gordon McMillan wrote:

> Sean Conley wrote:
> 
> > This problem has me completely stumped.  I am trying to write a telnet
> > client (actually a mud client) in Python.  The problem is that I can
> > connect and read information from the socket, but nothing seems to
> > happen when I send to the socket.  
> 
> How do you know that? Does your app freeze? (that would 
> indicate the socket isn't writable). Nothing happens? (most 
> likely the server is waiting for more - how does the server know 
> when you're done sending?) Do you get an exception?
> 
> You're not checking how bytes were actually sent. I have no 
> idea what createfilehandler does with the socket, although I'd 
> guess that's not the problem.
> 
> There's a sockets HOWTO on python.org you should probably 
> check out.
> 
> > I believe it may be a problem with my
> > program, as I had the same problem with Perl/Tk and was unable to solve
> > it there either.  So, if anyone has ANY idea why this could be please
> > email me or post here.  
> 
> My first guess is that you haven't delimited the sent data 
> properly, and the server is waiting for more.
> 
> - Gordon
>