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Learning Python Networking

You're reading from   Learning Python Networking Utilize Python 3 to get network applications up and running quickly and easily

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396008
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Network Programming and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. HTTP and Working with the Web 3. APIs in Action 4. Engaging with E-mails 5. Interacting with Remote Systems 6. IP and DNS 7. Programming with Sockets 8. Client and Server Applications 9. Applications for the Web A. Working with Wireshark Index

A multithreaded chat server


So let's put this to use and write our chat server. Make a new file called 2.1-chat_server-multithread.py and put the following code in it:

import threading, queue
import tincanchat

HOST = tincanchat.HOST
PORT = tincanchat.PORT

send_queues = {}
lock = threading.Lock()

def handle_client_recv(sock, addr):
    """ Receive messages from client and broadcast them to
        other clients until client disconnects """
    rest = bytes()
    while True:
        try:
            (msgs, rest) = tincanchat.recv_msgs(sock, rest)
        except (EOFError, ConnectionError):
            handle_disconnect(sock, addr)
            break
        for msg in msgs:
            msg = '{}: {}'.format(addr, msg)
            print(msg)
            broadcast_msg(msg)

def handle_client_send(sock, q, addr):
    """ Monitor queue for new messages, send them to client as
        they arrive """
    while True:
        msg = q.get()
        if msg == None: break
        try:
            tincanchat...
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