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Reputation:

Python TCP trying to send object a bytes-like object is required

I'm trying to send a custom object via sockets in Python. My object is defined as:

packet = Packet.Packet(MAGIC_NUMBER,0,sender_next,packet_size,local_buffer)
port_out.send(packet)

But I am getting an error of: builtins.TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'Packet'

I've seen previous posts about using .encode() for str types but how do I do it for a custom object like this? Do I need to make a encode method?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 434

Answers (1)

Andrei Zhidelev
Andrei Zhidelev

Reputation: 111

You can use pickle

import pickle

packet = Packet.Packet(MAGIC_NUMBER,0,sender_next,packet_size,local_buffer)
port_out.send(pickle.dumps(packet))

https://pymotw.com/3/pickle/index.html

Upvotes: 1

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