Thanks for all the help, I tried sending the length and then the string and that appears to work, so I'll take a look at Pyro, too.
-Walker On 7/18/07, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:16 -0700, Walker Lindley < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm working on a distributed computing program and need to send Python > >objects over a TCP socket. [snip] > >Hopefully I'm doing something obviously wrong, but if anyone can help based > >on that description or if you need to see the source, please let me know > >(it's GPL'd). Thank you so much for any help. > > The obvious thing you're doing wrong is using pickle over a network. ;) > > http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/15864.html I'd say the obvious thing being done wrong is re-inventing the wheel. Use pyro instead... http://pyro.sourceforge.net/ Pyro does use pickle to serialise objects by default. It can use XML instead for an exploit free RPC at the cost of a bit of speed. http://pyro.sourceforge.net/manual/9-security.html#pickle -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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