How to receive a data file of unknown length using a python socket?

[John Machin]

On Jul 19, 8:04 am, twgray <twgray2... at gmail.com> wrote:

> send a 4 byte address from the embedded device, how do I convert that,
> in Python, to a 4 byte, or long, number?

struct.unpack() is your friend. Presuming the embedded device is
little-endian, you do:

the_int = struct.unpack('<I', four_bytes)[0]

See http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html