Problems with telnetlib

[John Baxter]

In article <a4t9fr$500$1 at odysseus.uci.kun.nl>,
 "Patrick Vrijlandt" <p.vrijlandt at aig.azn.nl> wrote:

> Although telnetlib seems rather buggy, there is not much request for
> improvement on c.l.py, so I think it is barely used, or
> it works fine with most servers.

Well, telnetlib works for the limited purposes we use it for here.  Or 
does it?  I found the cause (in my code) of fairly frequent false alarms 
in a monitor I wrote using it, but we still have infrequent false alarms 
which I haven't yet understood.

  --John