socket script from perl -> python

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

kettle wrote:

> Hi I have a socket script, written in perl, which I use to send
> audio data from one server to another.  I would like to rewrite
> this in python so as to replicate exactly the functionality of the
> perl script, so as to incorporate this into a larger python
> program. Unfortunately I still don't really have the hang of
> socket programming in python.

Socket programming in Python is just like socket programming in C. I
suppose with Perl it's the same.

> # pack $length as a 32-bit network-independent long
> my $len = pack('N', $length);
> [...]
> I've used python's socket library to connect to the server, and
> verified that the first piece of data'r' is read correctly, the
> sticking point seems to be the $len variable.  I've tried using
> socket.htonl() and the other less likely variants, but nothing
> seem to produce the desired result, which would be to have the
> server-side message print the same 'length' as the length printed
> by the client.

Try struct.calcsize.
 
Regards,


Björn

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