How to Make a Chat Without Needing Java

Instructions

1

Create a socket object and bind it to a port so that it may listen for incoming messages:

soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
soc.bind(('127.0.0.1',5432))
soc.listen(5)

2

Define the class to receive messages. This relies on the "threading" library so that it can run in the background of other applications:

class ChatThread(threading.Thread):

def __init__(self,c):
 threading.Thread.__init__(self)
 self.conn = c
 self.stopIt=False

3

Define the "run" method, which executes when a thread of type "ChatThread" executes:

def run(self):

    while not self.stopIt:
 msg = self.message_recv()
 print 'recieved-> ',msg

4

Define a message receiving class, which runs as part of the "run" method. This waits for messages and returns the message once received:

def message_recv(self):

    data = self.conn.recv(SIZE)
 self.conn.send('OK')
 msg = self.conn.recv(int(data))
 return msg

5

Get a socket connection and create a ChatThread thread:

c1,a1 = soc.accept()

thr = ChatThread(c1)
thr.start()
sender = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
soc.bind(('127.0.0.1',5433))
sender.send('Message')