socket send

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On 30 Lug, 18:06, NighterNet <darkne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 6:56 am, "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gm... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "NighterNet" <darkne... at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >news:55aba832-df6d-455f-bf34-04d37eb061cd at i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
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> > >I am trying to figure out how to send text or byte in python3.1. I am
> > > trying to send data to flashsocketto get there. I am not sure how to
> > > work it.
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> > > buff= 'id=' , self.id , ':balive=False\n'
> > > clientSock.send(buff);
> > > --
> > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> > Python3.1strings are Unicode (think characters not bytes).  When writing
> > to files, sockets, etc. bytes must be used.  Unicode strings have an
> > encode() method, where you can specify an appropriate encoding (ascii,
> > latin-1, windows-1252, utf-8, etc.):
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> >     clientSock.send(buff.encode('ascii'))
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> > When reading from thesocket, you can decode() the byte strings back into
> > Unicode strings.
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> >     data = clientSock.recv(1024).decode('ascii')
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> > -Mark
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> I am not sure how to use struct package.
> Here an example for the input:
> {id:1,playername:guest,x:100,y:50}
> {id:2,playername:tester,x:100,y:50}
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> struct.pack(? )

If your messages are ASCII, like it seems, forget about struct, which
is for 'binary' message format.
Format the string as you would in 2.6 ( using % or string.format for
instance ) and then use encode
as instructed.