[Tutor] Sockets -- huh?

[D-Man]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:18:37AM -0500, JRicker wrote:
| : Have you tried telnetlib?
| 
| No I didn't.  My reference has been Python Essential Reference, written
| for 1.5 and it said telnetlib was undocumented.  I figured sockets was a
| replacement.  Though telnetlib will be much better for my needs, any
| reason why sockets wouldn't work?
| 

Telnetlib is documented here :

http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-telnetlib.html

As Jorg said, telnet is a protocol that is built on top of sockets.
Sockets are a very low level of communication.  The server is probably
waiting for you to declar (according to the telnet protocol) what your
TERM, etc, are.

HTH,
-D