Socket communication problem

[Sandy Dunlop]

Sandy Dunlop wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new here, and fairly new to Python. I have been playing around with
> Python and started having a look at socket IO. I have written a script
> that communicates over a network to a server which is written in C.
> While trying to get this working, I have been running into a problem
> where the Python client appears to hang when it should be receiving data
> back from the server.


I forgot to add, I'm using Python 2.5.1 on OS X, and have also tried my 
program under Python 2.5.1 on Solaris 9.


Cheers,
Sandy