On Monday, 28 February 2011 10:54:56 UTC-5, Robi wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm totally new to Python but well motivated :-) > > I'm fooling around with Python in order to interface with FlightGear > using a telnet connection. > > I can do what I had in mind (send some commands and read output from > Flightgear using the telnetlib) with a read_until() object to catch > every output line I need, but it proved to be very slow (it takes 1/10 > of a sec for every read_until(). > > I tried using the read_eager() object and it's waaaayyyy faster (it > does the job in 1/100 of a sec, maybe more, I didn't tested) but it > gives me problems, it gets back strange strings, repeated ones, > partially broken ones, well ... I don't know what's going on with it. > > You see, I don't know telnet (the protocol) very good, I'm very new to > Python and Python's docs are not very specific about that read_eager(9 > stuff. > > Could someone point me to some more documentation about that? or at > least help me in getting a correct idea of what's going on with > read_eager()? > > I'm going on investigating but a help from here would be very > appreciated :-) > > Thanks in advance, > Roberto
Say a can someone explain for me how read_eager and read _very_eager decide when to stop reading date from a socket? If the command sent causes the server to reply with multiple lines how do the Python functions decide when to stop accepting new data from the socket? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
