Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:05:22 +0530, devi thapa wrote: > >> I am using the command >> >> recv(..) to receive a message from client. >> >> retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0) >> >> and its giving this error >> >> File "./server1.py", line 31 >> retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0) >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > ``*buf`` means "unpack everything in `buf` as if it where written as > positional arguments". It is not some "pointer dereferencing" syntax, as > Python doesn't have pointers as data types. After argument unpacking it > is not allowed to have other positional arguments. That's the syntax > error. > >>From where do you get `recv()` anyway? And what is `my_socket`? Most > certainly not an instance created with `socket.socket` because then you > would use the `recv()` method of that object. > It's C, loosely transcribed as pseudo-Python. For some clues about networking, take a look at
http://holdenweb.com/docs/NetProg.pdf but this does assume you want to learn Python, not carry on writing C. [Jack, the above is address to Devi, not you]. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
