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[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris  <chrisc894 at hotmail.com> writes:

    Chris> My biggest problem is storing the sockets that recv() the
    Chris> username and password, for now.

What about a dictionary? s1,s2,sn are the socket connections

m = {}
m['user1'] = s1
m['user2'] = s2
m['user3'] = s3


If you want to share this dictionary across modules and or threads,
you could use a Borg
           
   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66531

And see the previous thread 'Newbie: How to touch "global" variables'

Also, you may want to look at *Python Web Programming* by Steve Holden
and David Beazley, which has bountiful examples of all kinds of
client/server programming in python.  The source code is available for
a free download.

John Hunter