thanks JM, at this point i switched over to this scheme and now I'm getting an error durring instantiation of the server: Server.py: from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA from ServerNegotiator import ServerNegotiator from sharedComs import *
f = open("hostid") tup = stringToTuple(f.readline()[0:-1]) HostID = f.readline()[0:-1] f.close() key = RSA.construct((long(tup[0]),long(tup[1]), long(tup[2]), long(tup[3]), long(tup[4]),long(tup[5]))) host = "localhost" port = 8005 servernegotiator = ServerNegotiator(host,HostID, port, key) servernegotiator.start() ServerNegotiatior.py lines 185 - end class ServerNegotiator: def __init__(self, host, port, hostid, rsa_key, buf = 512): negotiator = Negotiator(host, hostid, rsa_key,buf) self.server = SocketServer.TCPServer((host, port), negotiator) def start(self): self.server.serve_forever() Traceback (most recent call last): File "Server.py", line 16, in <module> servernegotiator = ServerNegotiator(host,HostID, port, key) File "/home/twistedphrame/Desktop/communication/ ServerNegotiator.py", line 188, in __init__ self.server = SocketServer.TCPServer((host, port), negotiator) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 400, in __init__ self.server_bind() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 411, in server_bind self.socket.bind(self.server_address) File "<string>", line 1, in bind TypeError: an integer is required -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list