python sequence item 0_Python3 TypeError: sequence item 0: expected a bytes-like object, int found

2017-11-28 00:40:21

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I'm trying to send an array over TCP from a server-like script to a client-like one. The array is variable, so the data is sent using packets and then joined together at the client.

The data I'm trying to send is from the MNIST hand-written digits dataset for Deep Learning. The server-side code is:

tcp = '127.0.0.1'

port = 1234

buffer_size = 4096

(X_train, y_train), (X_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()

test_data = (X_test, y_test)

# Client-side Deep Learning stuff

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

s.connect((tcp, port))

x = pickle.dumps(test_data)

s.sendall(x)

s.close()

The client-side script loads a Neural Network that uses the test data to predict classes. The script for listening to said data is:

tcp = '127.0.0.1'

port = 1234

buffer_size = 4096

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

s.bind((tcp, port))

print ('Listening...')

s.listen(1)

conn, addr = s.accept()

data_arr = []

while True:

data_pack = conn.recv(buffer_size)

if not data: break

data_pack += data

my_pickle = b"".join(data_pack)

test_data = pickle.loads(my_pickle)

print ("Received: " + test_data)

conn.close()

# Irrelevant Deep Learning stuff...

The server sends the data without a hitch, but the client crashes when trying to join the packets received by the client (my_pickle = ...) with the following error:

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected a bytes-like object, int found

How should I format the join in order to recreate the data sent and use it for the rest of the script?