need a thread to keep a socket connection alive?

[Rene Pijlman]

nephish at xit.net:
>i have discovered that the server will send a request for the heartbeat
>ping if its almost timed out, so i use the length of the message to
>determine what to do with it.
>
>msg = sockobj.recv(1024)
>
>if len(msg) == 158:
>    record the data
>elif len(msg) == (34): # length of request for ping
>    ping the server

Incorrect. There are no 'messages' with TCP, only bytes.

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René Pijlman