PS: Help pickling across sockets

[Irmen de Jong]

Jonathan Hayward wrote:
> Just after posting the previous request, I realised that my test case
> worked after I added flushes. The next problem I have is that, in the
> real program, the server gets an EOFError when it first tries to read
> from the socket. 

I'm not sure, but perhaps pickle doesn't work on sockets directly?
Perhaps it needs a random-access file object.

So, read all the data from the socket yourself, into a string
buffer, and run pickle on that.

That's what I do in Pyro :-)

HTH,
--Irmen de Jong