#!/usr/bin/python3
"""Defines the read and write methods used by network to send/receive"""
import socket, sys, pickle

class MySocket:
    def read(self, socket):
        '''Parameters: socket, a socket returned by an accept command.
        Preconditions: socket has been accepted and is open. 
        Socket is sending a pickled object.
        Postconditions: It will return the object in socket in an unpickled
        format.'''
        """Given a socket, receives a pickled object from it and loads it."""
        response = socket.recv(64)
        st = response
        while(len(st) > 0 and st[-1] != 42 ):
            response = socket.recv(64)
            st += response
        if st == None or len(st) == 0:
            return None
        else:
            return pickle.loads(st[:-1])
        
    def write(self, socket, obj):
        '''
        Parameters: socket, a socket returned by an accept command
        obj, a pickleable object to be sent.
        Preconditions: socket has been accepted and is open
        Postconditions: obj will be sent to the destination marked by socket
        as a pickled object.''' 
        """Given a socket and obj, pickles and sends obj through socket."""
        p = pickle.dumps(obj)
        p += b'*'
        socket.send(p)
    

def main():
    """Runs until some quit condition"""
    while True:
        write(client, input("Enter some text: "))
        print(read(client))