newbie: write content in a file (server-side)

[Thomas Kaufmann]

Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 17:16:11 UTC+2 schrieb Peter Otten:
> Thomas Kaufmann wrote:
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> > I send from a client file content to my server (as bytes). So far so good.
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> > The server receives this content complete. Ok. Then I want to write this
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> > content to a new file. It works too. But in the new file are only the
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> > first part of the whole content.
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> > What's the problem.
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> > Here's my server code:
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> >         while True:
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> >             bytes = self.request.recv(4096)
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> >             if bytes:
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> >                 s  = bytes.decode("utf8")
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> >                 print(s)
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> >                 li = s.split("~")
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> >                 with open(li[0], 'w') as fp:
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> >                     fp.write(li[1])
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> 
> - Do you ever want to leave the loop?
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> - You calculate a new filename on every iteration of the while loop -- 
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> probably not what you intended to do.
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> - The "w" argument tells Python to overwrite the file if it exists. You 
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> either need to keep the file open (move the with... out of the loop) or open 
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> it with "a".
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> - You may not receive the complete file name on the first iteration of the 
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> while loop.
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> - The bytes buffer can contain incomplete characters, e. g.:
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> >>> data = b"\xc3\xa4"
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> >>> data.decode("utf-8")
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> 'ä'
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> >>> data[:1].decode("utf-8")
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: 
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> unexpected end of data


Thanks Peter. It helps;-).