John Salerno wrote:
if the program I write actually works and allows the two computers to speak to each other, will that be a result purely of the program, or will it have anything to do with the fact that they are already on a home network together?
Here are the two programs. Server first, then client. They work, which in itself amazes me that it's so simple to create a network connection like this! But my basic question is this: would this connection work if the two computers (each running one of these scripts) were completely unrelated to one another? My two are on a home network, but if I were to run the server program and have a friend of mine (who lives somewhere else) run the client program, would it still work?
----- #!/usr/bin/env python from socket import * from time import ctime HOST = '192.168.1.100' PORT = 21567 BUFSIZ = 1024 ADDR = (HOST, PORT) tcpSerSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) tcpSerSock.bind(ADDR) tcpSerSock.listen(5) while True: print 'waiting for connection...' tcpCliSock, addr = tcpSerSock.accept() print '...connected from:', addr while True: data = tcpCliSock.recv(BUFSIZ) if not data: break tcpCliSock.send('[%s] %s' % (ctime(), data)) tcpCliSock.close() tcpSerSock.close() ----- ----- #!/usr/bin/env python from socket import * HOST = '192.168.1.100' PORT = 21567 BUFSIZ = 1024 ADDR = (HOST, PORT) tcpCliSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) tcpCliSock.connect(ADDR) while True: data = raw_input('> ') if not data: break tcpCliSock.send(data) data = tcpCliSock.recv(BUFSIZ) if not data: break print data tcpCliSock.close() ----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list