newbie question

[jeff]

Krzysztof Stachlewski <stach at fr.USUN.pl> wrote in
news:c5mtsl$dns$2 at absinth.dialog.net.pl: 

> jeff wrote:
> 
>> ex:
>> 
>> a = "text str"
>> if a == "text str": print a
>> 
>> why doesn't that work?  i couldn't find much help about variable
>> types in the manual, does it need a property like a.text?
> 
> It works - at least on my computer.
> That is: it prints "text str" to the console.
> What did you expect it to do?
> 
ok this is the bit i'm working with, i'm tinkering with sockets.
when the recieved text == kill, i want the socket to close.  actually, the 
example i posted worked for me too, but i don't understand why this 
doesn't.

while 1:
	sdata = s.recv(1024)
	if not sdata: break
	if sdata == "kill": s.close()
	print "Recieved:", sdata