Sending a Dictionary using Sockets in Python?

Question

My problem: Ok, I made a little chat program thing where I am basically using sockets in order to send messages over a network.

It works great, but when I decided t

Answer 1

You have to serialize your data. there would be many ways to do it, but json and pickle will be the likely way to go for they being in standard library.

for json :

import json

data_string = json.dumps(data) #data serialized
data_loaded = json.loads(data) #data loaded

for pickle(or its faster sibling cPickle):

import cPickle as pickle

data_string = pickle.dumps(data, -1) 
#data serialized. -1, which is an optional argument, is there to pick best the pickling protocol
data_loaded = pickle.loads(data) #data loaded.

also, please don't write

i= True
while i is True:
 #do_something

because simple while True: would suffice.