[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Feb 8, 3:40 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2007-02-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > struct module pack and unpack will only work for fixed size buffer :
>> > pack('>1024sIL', buffer, count. offset) but the buffer size can vary
>> > from one packet to the next :-(
>>
>> Oh for Pete's sake...
>>
>> struct.pack('>%dsIL' % len(buffer), buffer, count, offset)
>>
>> --
>> Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want the
>> presidency
>> at so bad I can already
>> taste
>> visi.com the hors d'oeuvres.
>
> that is great but how does one unpack on the other side?
By peeking into the header, determining the number of bytes necessary?
But why do you need this anyway - if you know that you will have python on
both ends, use Pyro or xmlrpc.
Diez
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