More pedanticly, it needn’t: serious chat services often do things like The client connects, but doesn’t know about any other clients. Is it a variable that’s going to be in the client’s script? Yes, but again it is a made up name you’ll have to obtain it in your But the work all happens in the server.Īnd what about my_socket? Is it identified as one of the threads opened
Yes, but they’re just made up variable names.
These variables, the_client_sockets and client_socket are handled by Of these and use it to decide which client to skip when copying theĬameron Simpson I have a couple of questions. Msg_flags, address).” The “address” is the client address - keep a list Instead you probably receive messages with socket.recvmsg(), whichįrom the docs: “The return value is a 4-tuple: (data, ancdata, Socket accepting UDP datagrams from clients there’s no connection If you’re using datagrams (usually UDP packets) where you have a server Just record the socket in “the_client_sockets” when the server That works if your chat server is using stream (usually TCPĬonnections), where there’s a stable “connection” socket for eachĬlient. the socket you're using when you receive the message You can see ifĪ reference to a socket is a particular reference with Python’s “is” Requirement, but: every connection is a “socket” object. Keep an array of the active sockets, copy to every socket if that socket If you’re just exchanging messages (receive message, copy to every But a socket knows what it talks to at an IP That’s becauseneither socket nor threading track clients of higher level
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