[Tutor] transferring files over a network

[Stephen Aichele]

I'm looking for suggestions for implementing P2P filesharing over a network using Python.  

with respect to the connection itself, I think I'm ok.  However, I'm thinking that there must be a better way to handle the data transfer than what I'm currently doing:

open the file on machine #1, read it into a variable, and send the data (as a python variable) to machine #2.  machine #2 then catches it and writes it to a file.

this is all well and good for simple files, but for longer files it seems like too much data to have read into a variable and sent all at once.  seems there should be a way to copy the file directly from machine #1 to machine #2.

If anyone has a minute to spare with a suggestion or two, I'd really appreciate it...

thanks!
Stephen