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[Gerhard Häring]

Oleg Seifert wrote:
> Hallo Leute,
> 
> habe eine kleine Frage:
> 
> Ich soll mit Python eine Netzwerkanfrage senden und eine Antwort 
> ausgeben. Dafür habe ich folgenden Skript geschrieben:

"""
Hi folks,

I have a little question:

I'm supposed to send a network request using Python and print a 
response. I've written the following script for this:
"""

> -------------------------------------
> from socket import *
> 
> def read():
>     print s.recv(1024)
>     
> 
> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(("localhost", 99))
> 
> s.send("loadGraph(\"g.g\");\n")
> read()
> s.close()
> -------------------------------------

> Die Anfrage wird gesendet und die Antwort kommt auch an, aber von dem 
> Antwort erscheint immer nur eine Zeile. Die Antworte sind auch 
> unterschiedlich, sie können verschiedene Zeilenanzahl haben. Wie kann 
> ich unabhängig von einer Antwortstruktur, ganze Antwort ausgeben ?

"""
The request is sent and the response arrives as well, but from the 
response I only ever see one line. The responses are different as well, 
they can have different number of lines. How can I print the whole 
response, independent of the structure (numer of lines) of the response?
"""

If you want to roll your own protocol, you need to design it in a way 
such that the client *can* know when a response is finished. Also it's 
easier to make the socket a file and read from that. Here's a snippet 
from the module smtplib in the standard library that shows how it's can 
be done:

#v+
         if self.file is None:
             self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb')
         while 1:
             line = self.file.readline()
             if line == '':
                 self.close()
                 raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly 
closed")
             if self.debuglevel > 0: print 'reply:', `line`
             resp.append(line[4:].strip())
             code=line[:3]
             # Check that the error code is syntactically correct.
             # Don't attempt to read a continuation line if it is broken.
             try:
                 errcode = int(code)
             except ValueError:
                 errcode = -1
                 break
             # Check if multiline response.
             if line[3:4]!="-":
                 break
#v-

Continuation lines look like these:

#v+
250-mail.w-koerting.de
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-ETRN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5
250-XVERP
#v-

Then comes a line in a different format so the SMTP client knows it's 
the last one in the response:

#v+
250 8BITMIME
#v-

HTH & HAND,

-- Gerhard