yah i did the search, and tried the solution, but it didn't work.... nice
of you to have tried, though...
anyhow, i found where the problem is... on the client side it should be
connect() instead of bind() in :
> tcpCliSock.bind(ADDR)
thanks
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Evert Rol <evert....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i'm trying to implement a server that adds a time stamp to incoming text
> form a client.
> >
> > the server's code is (but doesn't seem to have the problem as demoed by
> the error below:
> >
> > from socket import *
> > from time import ctime
> >
> > HOST = ''
> > PORT = 21567
> > BUFSIZ = 1024
> > ADDR =(HOST, PORT)
> >
> > tcpSerSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
> >
> > tcpSerSock.bind(ADDR)
> > tcpSerSock.listen(5)
> >
> > while True:
> > print('waiting for connection ...')
> > tcpCliSock, addr =tcpSerSock.accept()
> > print('...connected from: ', addr)
> >
> > while True:
> > data = tcpCliSock.recv(BUFSIZ)
> > if not data:
> > break
> > tcpCliSock.send('[{}] {}'.format(bytes(ctime(), 'utf-8'),data))
> >
> > tcpCliSock.close()
> > tcpSerSock.close()
> >
> >
> >
> > the client's code is:
> >
> > from socket import *
> >
> >
> > HOST = 'localhost'
> > PORT = 21567
> > BUFSIZ = 1024
> > ADDR =(HOST, PORT)
> >
> > tcpCliSock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
> >
> > tcpCliSock.bind(ADDR)
> >
> > while True:
> > data=input('> ')
> > if not data:
> > break
> > tcpCliSock.send(data)
> > data = tcpCliSock.recv(BUFSIZ)
> > if not data:
> > break
> > print(data.decode('utf-8'))
> >
> > tcpCliSock.close()
> >
> > the problem is i get the following error when i enter some text:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "C:\Python32\tsTclnt3.py", line 17, in <module>
> > tcpCliSock.send(data)
> > TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
>
> Did you try to search on the error string? That would have gotten you the
> solution (even) faster.
> The first two Google hits (and probably all the rest of them), tell me
> that Python 3's socket.send() method wants bytes as input, not str. See
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/socket.html#socket.socket.send
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Evert
>
>
> >
> > can you help?
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