mpy usocket.readinto == cpy socket.recv_into ?

[PinkInk]

I think MicroPython's usocket.readinto method does the same thing as cpython's socket.recv_into. Hence for testing in cpython, before deploying to esp or WiPy, I've been doing this at import time;

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try: 
     import usocket as socket 
 except: 
     import socket 
     socket.socket.readinto = socket.socket.recv_into 

... and it seems to work OK, but am I missing some subtle difference between the two?

[pfalcon]

No, micropython's socket.readinto() is equivalent to socket.makefile("rwb").readinto() and is a shortcut for the latter. recv() and read() have differences in semantics, see https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/2056 and comments in https://github.com/micropython/micropyt ... es/network

[PinkInk]

Ok, got you - didn't understand how you got there but the comments in the http server example make sense. Thanks.

This was in the context of an http server reading files from flash and serving them up over http - is there a way to negate the need for an intermediary Python buffer object and read from a file directly into a socket?

[pfalcon]

No. Not in a general case.