A multithreaded echo server

A benefit of the multithreading approach is that the OS handles the thread switches for us, which means we can continue to write our program in a procedural style. Hence we only need to make small adjustments to our server program to make it multithreaded, and thus, capable of handling multiple clients simultaneously.

Create a new file called 1.3-echo_server-multi.py and add the following code to it:

import threading
import tincanchat

HOST = tincanchat.HOST
PORT = tincanchat.PORT

def handle_client(sock, addr):
    """ Receive one message and echo it back to client, then close
        socket """
    try:
        msg = tincanchat.recv_msg(sock)  # blocks until received
                                         # complete message
        msg = '{}: {}'.format(addr, msg)
        print(msg)
        tincanchat.send_msg(sock, msg)  # blocks until sent
    except (ConnectionError, BrokenPipeError):
        print('Socket error')
    finally:
        print('Closed connection...