Python sockets/select

David Allen s2mdalle at titan.vcu.edu
Wed Jun 21 17:58:33 EDT 2000


> Actually, there are some possibilities to get 0 bytes on a return
> without hitting EOF: if you are using a wrapper object that possibly
> eats up some bytes (for protocol negotiation, for instance.) Telnetlib
> is a good example of this:

Hmm.  That makes sense.  The information sent over the network could
be > 0 bytes, but nothing but headers, no "body" data, right?

> If you do something similar in your own sockets, this may well be the
> case.

I'll have to reexamine my code very carefully.  There is no protocol
stripping going on at all. 
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