Answer to Question #254041 in Python for shishi

Question

Write a two way chat application using Socket Programming with

Multithreading in python

Answer 1

server side

import socket
from _thread import *
import threading


plock = threading.Lock()


def threaded(cur):
	while True:
		d = cur.recv(1024)
		if not d:
			plock.release()
			break
		d = d[::-1]
		cur.send(d)
	cur.close()


host = ""
port = 55555
soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
soc.bind((host, port))
soc.listen(5)
while True:
	cur, address = soc.accept()
	plock.acquire()
	print('Connected to :', address[0], ':', address[1])
	start_new_thread(threaded, (cur,))
soc.close()

client side

import socket
host = '127.0.0.1'
port = 55555
soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
soc.connect((host,port))
message = "Hello world"
while True:
	soc.send(message.encode('ascii'))
	d = soc.recv(1024)
	print('Received from the server :',str(d.decode('ascii')))
	c = input('\nContinue(y/n) :')
	if c == 'y':
		continue
	else:
		break
s.close()