Python Socket - Send/Receive messages at the same time
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You should keep 2 threads: one for listening and the other for receiving. In your while
loop, you should remove the listener part, and keep the code in a different thread. This way you can receive and type on the console at the same time.
def recv():
while True:
data = s.recv(1024).decode()
if not data: sys.exit(0)
print data
Thread(target=recv).start()
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Satyrs
Updated on June 24, 2022Comments
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Satyrs almost 2 years
Basically I have been working on a simple chat room using socket and thread. In my client I can receive and send messages, my issue is that one comes before another in a loop, so if I am sending a message I will only receive data once I have sent a message. I want it to work like any other chat room, where I could receive a message when I am sending a message, any help will help greatly. This is my basic client:
import socket import sys ########### HOST = '25.0.18.52' PORT = 9999 ########### name = input("Enter your name: ") s = socket.socket() s.connect((HOST,PORT)) while 1: message = input("Message: ") s.send("{}: {}".format(name, message).encode('utf-8')) data = s.recv(1024) a = data.decode("utf-8") print(a)