Example
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
An annotated simple socket client example in python.
WARNING: This example doesn't show a very important aspect of
TCP - TCP doesn't preserve message boundaries. Please refer
to http://blog.stephencleary.com/2009/04/message-framing.html
before adapting this code to your application.
Runs in both python2 and python3.
"""
import socket
# Note that the server may listen on a specific address or any address
# (signified by the empty string), but the client must specify an address to
# connect to. Here, we're connecting to the server on the same machine
# (127.0.0.1 is the "loopback" address).
SERVER_ADDRESS = '127.0.0.1'
SERVER_PORT = 22222
# Create the socket
c = socket.socket()
# Connect to the server. A port for the client is automatically allocated
# and bound by the operating system
c.connect((SERVER_ADDRESS, SERVER_PORT))
# Compatibility hack. In python3, input receives data from standard input. In
# python2, raw_input does exactly that, whereas input receives data, then
# "evaluates" the result; we don't want to do that. So on python2, overwrite
# the input symbol with a reference to raw_input. On python3, trap the
# exception and do nothing.
try:
input = raw_input
except NameError:
pass
print("Connected to " + str((SERVER_ADDRESS, SERVER_PORT)))
while True:
try:
data = input("Enter some data: ")
except EOFError:
print("\nOkay. Leaving. Bye")
break
if not data:
print("Can't send empty string!")
print("Ctrl-D [or Ctrl-Z on Windows] to exit")
continue
# Convert string to bytes. (No-op for python2)
data = data.encode()
# Send data to server
c.send(data)
# Receive response from server
data = c.recv(2048)
if not data:
print("Server abended. Exiting")
break
# Convert back to string for python3
data = data.decode()
print("Got this string from server:")
print(data + '\n')
c.close()
