How does telnet differ from a raw tcp connection

Question

I am trying to send commands to a server via a python script. I can see the socket connection being established on the server. But the commands I am sending across , do not seem

Answer 1

Keep in mind that Telnet is an application layer protocol while TCP is a transport layer protocol. Telnet uses TCP in order to transmit data. That is a big fundamental difference between Telnet and TCP.

See: OSI Model wikipedia page