newbie question

[Chris Green]

jeff <plastic"no-spam-pls"@xsintrk.net> writes:

> how can i be sure i have received the entire string?

You need to queue up the data returned and have a protocol defined for
when a command terminates such as '\r\n'. Ugly Untested code below.

buf = ""
delim = "\r\n"

while 1:
    sdata = s.recv(1024)

    if not sdata:
        break

    # append sdata to the buf
    buf += sdata

    while 1:
        idx = buf.find(delim)
    
        if idx > -1:
           cmd = buf[:idx]  # grab cmd
           buf = buf[:idx + len(delim)] # save off the rest of the command
    
           if cmd == "kill":
                s.close()
                print "Received:", sdata
        else:
           break  # breaks inner loop

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Chris Green <cmg at dok.org>
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