I've got a very simple set up in Pure Data: it creates a local host socket and sends a number through this socket. The number comes either from a Vslider or a Number box.
This data is then received in Python through the Socket module. It is decoded and converted to float(), thereafter the float value is printed.
import socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
server_address = ('localhost', 13001)
sock.bind(server_address)
sock.listen(1)
while True:
connection, client_address = sock.accept()
try:
while True:
data = connection.recv(16)
data = data.decode("utf-8")
data = data.replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '').replace('\r', '').replace(';', '')
VARIABLE = float(data)
print(f'received {VARIABLE} as a float')
finally:
connection.close()
The problem is that when I move the Vslider too quickly (or when I move the mouse cursor in the number box too quickly). The number values sent from Pd are "appended" together. For instance, I go very quickly from 1 to 10. Values 1-6 are correctly decoded and printed. However, values 7-10 are not printed separately, instead being printed as 78910. This can happen with any values up to 10 numbers or so. So I could get 12345678910111213 and so on. I'm fairly new to Pd so I'm not sure at all where this error originated.
