[Tutor] Socket question.

[Alan Gauld]

"Dude, WHOA!" <sxkorean at gmail.com> wrote

> kinda thing. The problem is that the client I wrote doesn't receive
> data and display it, and it also only executes single word commands.

> Server side:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import socket
> from subprocess import *
> IP = 'localhost'
> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> sock.bind((IP, 1234))

You are using localhost so it will only work with the client on
the same PC and using port 1234.

> Client:
> IP = raw_input('IP: ')
> PORT = input('PORT: ')

So there is no point in asking the user, it has to be
IP = 127.0.0.1
PORT = 1234

Anything else will fail.

You can look at the Network programming topic on my
tutorial for some similar examples if you like.

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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