I guess there have been many attempts to make socket IO easier to handle
and a good number of those have been in Python.
The trouble with trying to improve something which is already well
designed (and conciously left as is) is that the so-called improvement
can become much more complex and overly elaborate. That can apply to the
initial idea, for sure, but when writing helper or convenience functions
perhaps it applies more to the temptation to keep adding just a little
bit extra. The end result can be overly elaborate such as a framework
which is fine where such is needed but is overkill for simpler
requirements.
Do you guys have any recommendations of some *lightweight* additions to
Python socket IO before I write any more of my own? Something built in
to Python would be much preferred over any modules which have to be
added. I had in the back of my mind that there was a high-level
socket-IO library - much as threading was added as a wrapper to the
basic thread module - but I cannot find anything above socket. Is there
any?
A current specific to illustrate where basic socket IO is limited: it
normally provides no guarantees over how many bytes are transferred at a
time (AFAICS that's true for both streams and datagrams) so the
delimiting of messages/records needs to be handled by the sender and
receiver. I do already handle some of this myself but I wondered if
there was a prebuilt solution that I should be using instead - to save
me adding just a little bit extra. ;-)
James
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