Thank you, it's very helpful. I think the recvall should builtin to the _socket module like sendall. ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Dan Stromberg"<drsali...@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 06:01 AM To: "陶青云"<qingyun....@tophant.com>; Cc: "python-list"<python-list@python.org>; Subject: Re: Why not have a recvall method? On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 5:26 AM, 陶青云 <qingyun....@tophant.com> wrote: > Hello, all > The socket object has a `sendall` method that can send all bytes you > specified. > Oppositely, socket only has a recv method. I wonder why there is not a > `recvall` method? > To workaround this, I use `f = socket.makefile('rb')`, then all `f.read(n)` > Thanks.
You're probably good with socket.makefile('rb'). An alternative that allows things like reading null-terminated input: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/bufsock.html I wrote it and have been using it in production for years. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list