Receive a known length of bytes from a socket

def receive(self, siz):
        """
        Receive a known length of bytes from a socket
        """
        result = bytearray()
        data = 'x'
        while len(data) > 0:
            data = self.sock.recv(siz - len(result))
            result += data
            if len(result) == siz:
                return result
            if len(result) > siz:
                raise Exception('Received more bytes than expected')
        raise Exception('Error receiving data. %d bytes received'%len(result))