Hi there, >Thanks for the detailed reply. I edited, saved and opened the file >again. Still I am getting exactly the same error. > >Putting bigger chunk of code and the error again:
[snipped; thanks for the larger chunk] >Error: >except socket.error as e: > ^ >SyntaxError: invalid syntax I ran your code. I see this: $ python3 shaunak.bangale.py Connecting... Connection succeeded Traceback (most recent call last): File "shaunak.bangale.py", line 23, in <module> ssl_sock.write(bytes(initiation_command, 'UTF-8')) NameError: name 'initiation_command' is not defined Strictly speaking, I don't think you are having a Python problem. * Are you absolutely certain you are (or your IDE is) executing the same code you are writing? * How would you be able to tell? Close your IDE. Run the code on the command-line. * How much time have you taken to work out what the interpreter is telling you? Good luck, -Martin -- Martin A. Brown http://linux-ip.net/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list