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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/howto/sockets.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index 7a9b0ed..820beb5 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -204,13 +204,15 @@ length message:: totalsent = totalsent + sent def myreceive(self): - msg = b'' - while len(msg) < MSGLEN: - chunk = self.sock.recv(MSGLEN-len(msg)) + chunks = [] + bytes_recd = 0 + while bytes_recd < MSGLEN: + chunk = self.sock.recv(min(MSGLEN - bytes_recd, 2048)) if chunk == b'': raise RuntimeError("socket connection broken") - msg = msg + chunk - return msg + chucks.append(chunk) + bytes_recd = bytes_recd + len(chunk) + return b''.join(chunks) The sending code here is usable for almost any messaging scheme - in Python you send strings, and you can use ``len()`` to determine its length (even if it has |