python socket下的send()和sendall()

使用python2.7。

官方文档对socket模块下的socket.send()和socket.sendall()解释如下：

socket.send(string[, flags])
Send data to the socket. The socket must be connected to a remote socket. The optional flags argument has the same meaning as for recv() above. Returns the number of bytes sent. Applications are responsible for checking that all data has been sent; if only some of the data was transmitted, the application needs to attempt delivery of the remaining data.

send()的返回值是发送的字节数量，这个数量值可能小于要发送的string的字节数，也就是说可能无法发送string中所有的数据。如果有错误则会抛出异常。

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socket.sendall(string[, flags])
Send data to the socket. The socket must be connected to a remote socket. The optional flags argument has the same meaning as for recv() above. Unlike send(), this method continues to send data from string until either all data has been sent or an error occurs. None is returned on success. On error, an exception is raised, and there is no way to determine how much data, if any, was successfully sent.

尝试发送string的所有数据，成功则返回None，失败则抛出异常。

故，下面两段代码是等价的：

sock.sendall('Hello world\n')

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buffer = 'Hello world\n'
while buffer:
    bytes = sock.send(buffer)
    buffer = buffer[bytes:]

这两段代码来自Using TCP sockets in Python。