reading sockets

[Martin Sjögren]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:30:45PM +0000, Ken Mugrage wrote:
> Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm just learning python and trying to
> write a small program that uses sockets.
> 
> Basically, I wam to emulate the perl behavior of reading the response from
> the server one line at a time.
> 
> In perl, I would do something like
> 
> while(<SOCKET>) {
>     print $_;
> }
> 
> and it would print everything as it is sent, one line at a time.
> 
> In Python, I have something like
> 
> while 1:
>   data = mysocket.recv(1024)
>   print data
> 
> which of course print everything in 1024 byte blocks.
> 
> I tried using string.split( data, "\n") but the results are inaccurate,
> since the end of data may be in the middle of a line.

I'm no star on Python, and I'm not sure this'll work, but you might want
to try this:

f = mysocket.makefile('r')
line = f.readline()
while line:
    print line, # line already has a \n
    line = f.readline()

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