class MessageServer: '''Creates a message server object that listens for textual information and sends it back to the main program. Intended to be spawned as a separate process. '''
def __init__(self, port_number, server_send, server_receive): '''@param server_send The pipe MessageServer uses to send text back to the main program. @param port_number The port the server listens on the network at. ''' self.server_send = server_send self.server_receive = server_receive self.client_socket = None self.address = None self.error_logger = errorlogger.ErrorLogger(program_name=PROGRAM_NAME) self.server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) self.server_socket.bind(('localhost', port_number)) self.server_socket.listen(1) self.listen() def listen(self): # listen for messages until process is killed # if a message is received, send it back to the main program (self.client_socket, self.address) = self.server_socket.accept() while True: input_stream = str(self.client_socket.recv(1024)) if len(input_stream) != 0: os.write(self.server_send, input_stream) input_stream = None -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list