Buffer size when receiving data through a socket?

[John Salerno]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message 
news:vrudnYYHF6EnLcXVnZ2dnUVZ_oPinZ2d at earthlink.com...
> The first if is checking for lack of interactive input -- and, as
> coded, will never break out as ANY response to the > prompt will have a
> newline attached.
>
> Try with raw_input("> ").strip() instead

Well, I know the first if block works properly. Pressing just ENTER will 
exit the loop and close the client socket.

> The second if is checking for empty receive block...  And since
> .recv() blocks until it has something to return (as I recall) it may not
> be of use...

Interesting point. I'm not sure if it works that way though. I *think* I 
tried sending an empty string from the server back to the client, and as 
expected it exited the loop and closed the client, which doesn't make sense 
to me, since an empty string could be perfectly valid return data.

I opted to remove the second if statement and see where that takes me. :)