[Tutor] Re: How to connect a MUD client? (fwd)

[Nick Lunt]

>> >>> tn = telnetlib.Telnet('mudlib.anarres.org', 5000)
>> >>> tn.read_very_eager()


>Sorry, I am not able to understand "tn.read_very_eager()", could you please
>explain it?


Hi there,

just to let you know (in case you dont :] ) the python command line has a
useful help() function.
Try this

  import telnetlib
  help(telnetlib.Telnet.read_very_eager)

This works for most python modules, eg

  import socket
  help(socket)


On another note, if your interested in doing some network programs with
python, twisted as mentioned in
a previous post is exceptionally good for it.
Im a learner pythonist like yourself, and i started off writing a couple of
network programs using the socket module,
then I came across twisted, and it really is a good framework for network
programming.
I managed to create a simple chatserver using twisted quite easily. I
strongly recommend you to visit
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html and then www.twistedmatrix.com .

Good luck
Nick.