In C you are not necessarily "on your own" - you can do something very similar to Python, turning your socket into a file with fdopen(). You can then use funct

In C you are not necessarily "on your own" - you can do something very similar to Python, turning your socket into a file with fdopen(). You can then use functions like fgets() and fread() on it, and stdio will take care of the buffering for you.