socket issue with recv()

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Arthur Clarck <aclarck5 at gmail.com>:

> What is happening is that I got some datas from the remote site,
> Something like 'Contacting BH: ...'
> But directly followed by 'remote site is closed.

This works:

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys, socket, os

def main():
    s = socket.socket()
    s.connect(("mail.python.org", 25))
    if os.fork() > 0:
        s.close()
        os.wait()
        os._exit(0)
    while True:
        data = s.recv(50)
        sys.stderr.write("{}\n".format(repr(data)))
        if not data:
            break

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
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Marko