Steve Holden wrote: ......
I seem to remember that the Medusa code contains a fairly good overlapped search for a terminator string, if you want to chunk the file.
Take a look at the handle_read() method of class async_chat in the standard library's asynchat.py.
..... thanks I'll give it a whirl
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