On Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:33:13 PM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <9e773107-5a6c-486b-bef2-186101d8f...@googlegroups.com>,
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> cilantr...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > I'm attempting to set up an extremely simple server that receives a string,
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> > and returns a string. However, I have 2 problems. I'm able to receive the
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> > string from the client fine, but it only will receive it once. After I send
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> > another string from the client, it doesn't come up on the server... Also, I
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> > want to send something BACK to the client-side, but I can't seem to see
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> > how... Please help! I'm very new to networking, but I've been using Python
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> > for a while now, just recent;y getting into networking, trying to get
> > things
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> > down.
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> >
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> > SERVER.PY:
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> >
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> > import socket;
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> > serverReady = True;
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> >
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> > serverSock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM);
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> > serverSock.bind(('localhost', 8081));
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> > serverSock.listen(10);
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> >
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> > while (True):
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> > connection, address = serverSock.accept();
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> > if (serverReady):
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> > serverSockBuffer = connection.recv(1024);
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> > if (len(serverSockBuffer) > 0):
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> > print serverSockBuffer;
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> > if (raw_input("Ready?: ") in ['yes', 'y']):
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> > serverReady = True;
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> > else:
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> > serverReady = False;
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> First thing, get rid of all those semicolons. This is Python you're
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> writing, not C++. Likewise, the extra parens in your while statements.
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> Your problem is that you're doing the accept() inside your main loop on
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> the server. You want to be doing it once, outside the loop.
I prefer using the semicolons... They aren't making my code wrong... I use
other programming languages from time to time, and I'd rather just always use
semicolons, as with the parentheses. I will try that though, moving the
accept(). What about sending information back to the client?
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