array tofile fromfile tosocket? fromsocket?

[SpreadTooThin]

Hi I am using arrays in an application.
They have been working very well for me as I have been using them for
reading and writing data to and from files whose endianisms can be big
or little endian.
However now I need handle data that can be transferred over a socket.

I would rather not have to go in and change every occurance of tofile
and fromfile to a function but realize that is what I may have to do.
I was under the impression that a file and socket were interchangable
(like a file descriptor). Does anyone have an idea that might help me
minimize the impact on my code?

[Thomas Jollans]

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:29:00 -0700, "SpreadTooThin" <bj********@gmail.com>
let this slip:

I was under the impression that a file and socket were interchangable
(like a file descriptor). Does anyone have an idea that might help me
minimize the impact on my code?

are you looking for sockets' makefile method ?

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Thomas Jollans alias free-zombie

[SpreadTooThin]

Thomas Jollans wrote:

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:29:00 -0700, "SpreadTooThin" <bj********@gmail.com>
let this slip:

I was under the impression that a file and socket were interchangable
(like a file descriptor). Does anyone have an idea that might help me
minimize the impact on my code?

are you looking for sockets' makefile method ?

Yes.. but also I'm thinking about a new python class based on array...
like (psuedo code)

class myArray(array):
def todevice(self, device):
if device is a file:
self.tofile
else
writesocket(data)
def fromdevice(self, device):

Is this advisable?

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Thomas Jollans alias free-zombie