On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:27:13 -0700, Walker Lindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It doesn't interface well because the string you end up with often doesn't >fit into a single packet. Therefore you have to add a layer of protocol on >top of it that allows you to check to make sure you have the whole string >received before trying to unpickle it. This the case even if you use >socket's makefile() method to make a file descriptor.
This is somewhat misleading. TCP doesn't guarantee any minimum packet size larger than a single byte. Any messaging system which uses strings longer than one byte must have a framing protocol to be reliable. So, this isn't really specific to pickle. Basically, all protocols have to address this. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
