Sending directory with files in it via sockets

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Ryniek90 wrote:
> Hi.
> Last time i've got problem with sending big files, but i've already 
> dealt with it.
> Now, when i want send directory (with some files in it) i iterate that 
> directory for files in it, and then in while loop open iterated files, 
> read them and send. But something's not working. It iterate's first file 
> from directory and sends it all the time (only first file). So, the 
> iteration is written bad. Could you tell me how to modify it?
> 
> Here's that method:
> 
> def send_dir(self):
>        print "Gathering information's..."

(FYI, "information" doesn't have a plural, and if it did it wouldn't
have an apostrophe!)

>        self.direc = os.walk(self.data)
>        for files in self.direc:
>            lst_files = files[2]

Please not that you're binding files[2] to lst_files each time so that
it's final value is whatever the final result of self.direc was. I don't 
know whether that's intentional.

>        for fl in lst_files:
>            print "Sending %s from directory %s" % (fl, 
> os.path.split(self.data)[1])
>            while True:
>                files = open("%s/%s" % (self.data,fl), 'rb')
>                self.read = files.read(51200)
>                self.konn.send(self.read)
>                if not self.read:
>                    break
 >        files.close()

This 'while' loop is opening a file and sending the first 51200 bytes,
but then either leaving the loop if nothing was read or repeating the
whole thing if something was read. I think you need:

            data_file = open("%s/%s" % (self.data, fl), 'rb')
            while True:
                data = files.read(51200)
                if not data:
                    break
                self.konn.sendall(data)
            data_file.close()

Notice that I used sendall() instead of send(). This is because send()
doesn't guarantee to send _all_ the data (it's in the documentation).

> 
> "self.data" is variable for the "self.konn.recv(4096")  method.  
> self.konn is from "self.konn, self.addr = self.sok.accept()"
> 
> "self.direc = os.walk(self.data)
>        for files in self.direc:
>            lst_files = files[2]"
> 
> Iteration result looks like this:
> 
>  >>> import os
>  >>> direc = os.walk('/media/DOWNLOAD/Obrazy płyt/Half-Life 2')
>  >>> for files in direc:
>    lst_files = files[2]
> 
>   >>> lst_files
> ['hl2_1.nrg', 'hl2_2.nrg', 'hl2_4.nrg', 'hl2_5.nrg']
>  >>> for fl in lst_files:
>    print fl
> 
>   hl2_1.nrg
> hl2_2.nrg
> hl2_4.nrg
> hl2_5.nrg
>  >>>
>