Re: [Tutor] send issue

2013-03-23 Thread Lolo Lolo
> Does this help?   THANKS!! Yes it definately helped. everything is so much clearer now. i always used to wonder about the u"" syntax in python 2___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.or

Re: [Tutor] send issue

2013-03-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 23/03/13 15:22, Lolo Lolo wrote: You can use bytes() function: bytes('%d' % 3, 'utf-8') b'3' -m thanks this has solved everything. can i ask if this is an issue only in python 3 where sockets cant send strings? the docs state the argument is a string, but i believe that was for 2.7

Re: [Tutor] send issue

2013-03-22 Thread Lolo Lolo
>You can use bytes() function: bytes('%d' % 3,  'utf-8') >b'3' >-m   thanks this has solved everything. can i ask if this is an issue only in python 3 where sockets cant send strings? the docs state the argument is a string, but i believe that was for 2.7. I knew nothing about b'' or bytes

Re: [Tutor] send issue

2013-03-22 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 03/22/2013 11:29 PM, Lolo Lolo wrote: using a socket im trying to send a message between connections. it was a string and my python complained: > "TypeError: must be bytes or buffer, not str" .. so i put a b infront of the string. now this works fine but the problem is after recieving this

[Tutor] send issue

2013-03-22 Thread Lolo Lolo
using a socket im trying to send a message between connections. it was a string and my python complained:  "TypeError: must be bytes or buffer, not str" .. so i put a b infront of the string. now this works fine but the problem is after recieving this message, i need to send it back with an int