declaration problem

[devi thapa]

Hi,

I am using the command

recv(..) to receive a message from client.

retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)

and its giving this error

File "./server1.py", line 31
retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

how should I fill the length parameter,

please help me out with this,

Regards,
Devi

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:05:22 +0530, devi thapa wrote:

I am using the command

recv(..) to receive a message from client.

retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)

and its giving this error

File "./server1.py", line 31
retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

``*buf`` means "unpack everything in `buf` as if it where written as
positional arguments". It is not some "pointer dereferencing" syntax, as
Python doesn't have pointers as data types. After argument unpacking it
is not allowed to have other positional arguments. That's the syntax
error.

From where do you get `recv()` anyway? And what is `my_socket`? Most
certainly not an instance created with `socket.socket` because then you
would use the `recv()` method of that object.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Steve Holden]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:05:22 +0530, devi thapa wrote:

>I am using the command

recv(..) to receive a message from client.

retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)

and its giving this error

File "./server1.py", line 31
retval = recv(my_socket, *buf, len(buf) , 0)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

``*buf`` means "unpack everything in `buf` as if it where written as
positional arguments". It is not some "pointer dereferencing" syntax, as
Python doesn't have pointers as data types. After argument unpacking it
is not allowed to have other positional arguments. That's the syntax
error.

>>From where do you get `recv()` anyway? And what is `my_socket`? Most

certainly not an instance created with `socket.socket` because then you
would use the `recv()` method of that object.

It's C, loosely transcribed as pseudo-Python. For some clues about
networking, take a look at

http://holdenweb.com/docs/NetProg.pdf

but this does assume you want to learn Python, not carry on writing C.

[Jack, the above is address to Devi, not you].

regards
Steve
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