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

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.3382.1247958334.8015.python-list at python.org>,
MRAB  <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>If you send the length as 4 bytes then you'll have to decide whether
>it's big-endian or little-endian. An alternative is to send the length
>as characters, terminated by, say, '\n' or chr(0).

Alternatively, make it a fixed-length string of bytes, zero-padded in
front.
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