newbie question

[Krzysztof Stachlewski]

jeff wrote:

> 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

First of all, you can't be sure that you will receive the text "kill"
in one piece. It could happen that one recv() call will give only
"ki" and the following recv() will return the rest of it.
Moreover - try to print repr(sdata) and see what *exactly* is received.

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