What Data is Available With a Pickled Object Over a Socket?

[milan_sanremo]

I've read the library entry for pickle a couple of times, and I'm
still not
sure what data is maintained when an item is pickled and sent over a
socket.

Two importable modules:

class envelope():
def __init__(self, rec, d):
self.recipient = rec
self.listData = d

class mailbag():
def __init__(self):
self.dicEnvelope = []

def addEnvelope(self, uuid, envelope):
self.dicEnvelope[uuid] = envelope
Client
---------
import envelope, mailbag, cPickle, socket

remoteHost = "999.666.888.777
mb = mailbag()
env1 = envelope('John', ('a', 'b', 'c'))
env2 = envelope('Mary', ('d', 'e', f'))

mb.addEnvelope(1, env1)
mb.addEvenlop(2, env2)

pickledMailbag = cPickle.dump(mb, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.connect(remoteHost)
sock.send(pickledMailbag)

Server
---------
import envelope, mailbag, cPickle, socket

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.bind(host, port)
sock.listen(5)
conn, addr = sock.accept()
while 1:
pickledData = conn.recv(1024)
if not pickledData break

mb = cPickle.load(pickledData)

At this point, does mb contain a dictionary with the two envelopes
with
their data?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"milan_sanremo" <hanco,,,ail.com>wrote:

>
pickledMailbag = cPickle.dump(mb, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)

If you are going to send it over a socket - is it not better to use
dumps instead of dump?

- Hendrik

[Lawrence Oluyede]

milan_sanremo <ha************@gmail.comwrote:

I've read the library entry for pickle a couple of times, and I'm
still not
sure what data is maintained when an item is pickled and sent over a
socket.

I would not do that if I were you:
<http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/15864.html>

Unless you don't care about security

--
Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it
"It is difficult to get a man to understand
something when his salary depends on not
understanding it" - Upton Sinclair