I am in the process of designing some hardware interface with python. what I need to do is as follows,
~initialize the drivers
~start the device
~create a socket at port 2626 and wait for clients to connect for receiving data
~if any client got connected then send the hello message while serving all other connected client and add this client to the connected client list.
~if any event happened on the device lets say temperature raise is detected then through this event data to all connected clients.
~any connected clients can ask the server for any specific data.
This is my process. I got the device part working great now its printing data to console and for the socket server I have this following code this working fine as I expect.
but what is problem is after calling "run()" its going inside the while loop. its obvious though. when I am listening for new connections I am not able to call any other function.
while listening for connections I should be able to send / recv. any ideas how to do this?
this is my server program which is working fine for listening for connections. while listening you are not allowed to to anything. 🙁
#!/usr/bin/env python
import socket
import select
class ChatServer:
def __init__( self, port ):
self.port = port;
self.srvsock = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
self.srvsock.setsockopt( socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1 )
self.srvsock.bind( ("", port) )
self.srvsock.listen( 5 )
self.descriptors = [self.srvsock]
print 'Server started on port %s' % port
def run( self ):
while 1:
# Await an event on a readable socket descriptor
(sread, swrite, sexc) = select.select( self.descriptors, [], [] )
# Iterate through the tagged read descriptors
for sock in sread:
# Received a connect to the server (listening) socket
if sock == self.srvsock:
self.accept_new_connection()
else:
# Received something on a client socket
str = sock.recv(100)
# Check to see if the peer socket closed
if str == '':
host,port = sock.getpeername()
str = 'Client left %s:%s\r\n' % (host, port)
self.broadcast_string( str, sock )
sock.close
self.descriptors.remove(sock)
else:
host,port = sock.getpeername()
newstr = '[%s:%s] %s' % (host, port, str)
self.broadcast_string( newstr, sock )
def accept_new_connection( self ):
newsock, (remhost, remport) = self.srvsock.accept()
self.descriptors.append( newsock )
newsock.send("You're connected to the Python server\r\n")
str = 'Client joined %s:%s\r\n' % (remhost, remport)
self.broadcast_string( str, newsock )
def broadcast_string( self, str, omit_sock ):
for sock in self.descriptors:
if sock != self.srvsock and sock != omit_sock:
sock.send(str)
print str,
myServer = ChatServer( 2626 ).run()
Thanks in advance for all your help 🙂
Best Answer
Since twisted is out of question, I suggest using the socketserver module.
For an easy start, see this example.