Data available on socket?

[Nicolas]

Jan Danielsson a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
>    How do I find out if a blocking socket has data available [for
> reading] on it?
> 
> I assume I could do something like this:
> 
> tmp = self.read(1, socket.MSG_PEEK)
> if len(tmp) > 0:
>    # Data available
> 
>    But is there a better way? A call which specifically checks if data
> is available?

Hello,

You might want to use select.select.
See http://effbot.org/librarybook/select.htm for an example with sockets.

Nicolas.