Message 249114 - Python tracker

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In [1]: import socket

In [2]: sks = socket.socketpair(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)

In [3]: sks[1].send("asdfasdfsadfasdfsdfsadfsdfasdfsdfasdfsadfa")
Out[3]: 42

In [4]: sks[0].recv(1, socket.MSG_PEEK | socket.MSG_TRUNC)
Out[4]: 'a\x00\x00\x00\xc0\xbf8\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

recv() returns a buffer. The size of this buffer is equal to the size of transferred data, but only the first symbol was initialized. What is the idea of this behavior.

Usually recv(sk, NULL, 0, socket.MSG_PEEK | socket.MSG_TRUNC) is used to get a message size. What is the right way to get a message size in Python?