On Friday 04 February 2005 18:27, Tom Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I have what seems to be a simple problem. But I can not for the life of me > find a way to send an integer over a socket. The send method will only > accept strings. Here is what I am trying to do: > > testmessage = 'test message' > msglen = len(testmessage) > sock.send(msglen) > sock.send(testmessage) > > Now, I know I can do this: > > testmessage = 'test message' > sock.send('\xC') # send hard coded length of testmessage in hex in string > sock.send(testmessage) > > However, in my actual program I will not know the length of testmessage in > advance. So how do I convert msglen into a suitable format for the send > method? > > Thanks, > Tom
Ok, I think I've found what I was looking for. The marshal.dumps() function will convert my integer into a string representation of a fixed size. This way, on the other side, I know how many bytes to read to get the size of the string. Thanks, Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list