Reading line-by-line on a socket

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> From: sik0fewl [mailto:xxdigitalhellxx at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:59 PM
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Is there any way to read line by line on a socket, without having to 
> recv() a chunk and the keep it in some sort of queue to 
> retrieve later?
> 

Yes.  Let's say that "sock" is your receiving socket,
ready to do a recv.  You can do this:

>>> reader = sock.makefile("r")

and now you have a file-like object in "reader", which you
can apply readline() to.

hth

-gustavo