thanks to the help of this group I moved a tiny step forward. Obviously it is not possible to resolve name localhost: Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import socket >>> s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.connect(localhost, 8080) Traceback (innermost last): File "<console>", line 1, in ? NameError: localhost >>> s.connect((localhost, 8080)) Traceback (innermost last): File "<console>", line 1, in ? NameError: localhost >>> s.connect(('127.0.0.1', 8080)) Traceback (innermost last): File "<console>", line 1, in ? File "D:\AUT_TEST\Jython21\Lib\socket.py", line 135, in connect java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:507)
Unfortunately this is not the solution (I tried 127.0.0.1 before my first post). I added the two print lines as recommended: self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) print type(self.host), repr(self.host) print type(self.port), repr(self.port) self.socket.connect((self.host, self.port)) self.socketOutput = self.socket.getOutputStream() And more specific information: D:\AUT_TEST\workspace\JyFIT\fit>jython JyFitServer2.py 127.0.0.1 1234 12 ['JyFitServer2.py', '127.0.0.1', '1234', '12'] 127.0.0.1 org.python.core.PyString '127.0.0.1' org.python.core.PyString '1234' Traceback (innermost last): File "JyFitServer2.py", line 148, in ? File "JyFitServer2.py", line 31, in run File "JyFitServer2.py", line 98, in establishConnection File "D:\AUT_TEST\Jython21\Lib\socket.py", line 135, in connect TypeError: java.net.Socket(): 1st arg can't be coerced to java.net.InetAddress or String No casting from string to string?? I learned that there is no such thing as explicit typecasting. What to do? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list