On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Bottom line: > Socket programming on this level is hugely complicated. It doesn't seem too > bad if you > start of with these simple example programs, but that's false hope. If at all > possible, > avoid direct socket programming, and use a high-level protocol or library > instead > (ftp/http/some IPC library/Twisted). Let them deal with the complexity of the > socket layer. >
It's not quite as bad as this paragraph seems to imply. Sure, there are a million things that can go wrong, but once you master that, it's the very easiest way to do cross-language, cross-platform, cross-computer communication. Practically EVERY language can do basic TCP sockets, but not every language has higher level bindings. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
