I'm new to using buffers and I've just set up a server and client. When I send data over a socket, my understanding is it is sent as bytes. I'd like to send some arbitrary list of values between 1-4096 by using i.e. _conn.sendall(str(list).encode()). However, I don't know how to handle the data on the client side to put it into a buffer. My first attempt was using the io module and creating a buffer like buffer = io.BytesIO() and then writing to it from the socket.
data = socket.recv(buffer_size)
buffer.write(bytes(data))
However, I'm not sure if this is correct or if the buffer is written to at all. I've tried printing out the buffer by using print(data.getbuffer()) but nothing prints on my terminal not even if I set up an exception handler.