implementing sendall() and recvall() in C and python

I'm currently trying to implement a sendall() function in a server written in C, and a recvall() function on the corresponding client written in python.

I can get the server and the client to work together when they're both written in the same language (i.e. both in c or both in python), but I can't get it to work with the server in c and the client in python. currently, i want to send a simple string from the c server to the python client.

Server sendall() implementation in C as follows (referenced from Beej's guide):

int sendall(int socket, char * buf, int *len){
    int total = 0;        // how many bytes we've sent
    int bytesleft = *len; // how many we have left to send
    int n;

    while(total < *len) {
        n = send(socket, buf + total, bytesleft, 0);
        if (n == -1) { break; }
        total += n;
        bytesleft -= n;
    }

    *len = total; // return number actually sent here

    return n==-1?-1:0; // return -1 on failure, 0 on success
}

Calling the function:

char buf[10] = "test";
    int len;

    len = strlen(buf);

    if (sendall(command_socket, buf, &len) == -1) {
        perror("sendall");
        printf("We only sent %d bytes because of the error!\n", len);
    }

    printf("Bytes sent: %d\n", len);

Client recvall() implementation in Python (referenced from http://stupidpythonideas.blogspot.com/2013/05/sockets-are-byte-streams-not-message.html):

def recv_one_message(sock):
    lengthbuf = recvall(sock, 4)
    length, = struct.unpack('!I', lengthbuf)
    return recvall(sock, length)

def recvall(sock, count):
    buf = ''
    while count:
        newbuf = sock.recv(count)
        print newbuf

        if not newbuf:
            return None

        buf += newbuf
        count -= len(newbuf)
    return buf

Called as:

buf = recv_one_message(command_socket)
print buf

Whenever I send a message from the C-server to the Python-client, I get a return of "None." I've traced the the response coming in on the client side -- it is getting the message I sent, but the final response is always "none" and the message won't be printed. I've also tried just returning the message instead of having the None return, which also results in nothing getting printed. Can't see where I'm going wrong, any thoughts? Thanks.