Designing socket messaging format

[Ype Kingma]

Stephen wrote:
> 
> cimarron+google at taylors.org (Cimarron Taylor) wrote in message news:<29e28c51.0111120234.35d10048 at posting.google.com>...
> > shriek at gmx.co.uk (Stephen) wrote in message news:<97ae44ee.0111111912.14006c7f at posting.google.com>...
> > > I'm developing a program which sends messages back and forth
> > > between two servers using sockets.  The message format I've
> > > been given is "YYYYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"
> >
> > Why not save yourself a little coding and just use netstrings?
> >
> >      more info: http://itamarst.org/multiplex
> >  advogato copy: http://www.advogato.org/article/212.html
> >    python code: http://itamarst.org/downloads/multiplex-0.2.tgz
> >    description: http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. Is anybody actually
> using it though ? Would be a bit concerned with it
> being 0.2 release.
> 

It works fine. For efficiency you might need to add buffering 
especially on the receiving side.

> I guess the main reason not to use netstrings is
> the ability to interface with other servers that
> don't have the netstrings package or the desire to
> install it.  Sockets seem to be the lowest
> common denominator.
 
You would normally use them for messages both
ways, with the same python module on both sides.

Have fun,
Ype
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