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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:40:03 +1100
Subject: Re: Communicate between Python and Node.js
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Manish <gill.manish90@gmail.com> wrote:
> At first I thought to use the requests library to GET/POST data to node, =
but I googled around and it seems lots of people think TCP sockets are the =
way to go. I tried implementing my own using several examples I have found =
online. It *kind of* works. It seems like I get blocked while trying to rec=
eive data back in the recv() loop. I never reach the end. I'm not an expert=
 in sockets/networking, but maybe I'm not wrong in guessing it is because o=
f the non-blocking nature of Node.js ?

Do you need to use non-blocking sockets here? I think, from a quick
skim of your code, that you'd do better with a blocking socket. Tip:
Any time you have a sleep(1) call in your code, look to see if it's
doing the wrong thing. In this case, I'm pretty sure it is. Sleeping
for a second and then trying to read from a nonblocking socket seems
like a messy way to just read until you have what you want.

There's another thread happening at the moment about networking in
Python. You may find it of interest.

ChrisA