In article <mailman.3382.1247958334.8015.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >If you send the length as 4 bytes then you'll have to decide whether >it's big-endian or little-endian. An alternative is to send the length >as characters, terminated by, say, '\n' or chr(0).
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