De Santa Michell
De Santa Michell

Reputation: 133

Questions about socket module's .accept() return value of python

I am very new to python and I am having a problem with using socket module to set up TCP connections. Here is part of my code:

clients = {}
addresses = {}

HOST = ''
PORT = 33000
BUFSIZ = 1024
ADDR = (HOST, PORT)
SERVER = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
SERVER.bind(ADDR)

def accept_incoming_connections():
    while True:
       client, client_address = SERVER.accept()
       print ("The Client is: ")
       print (client.raddr)
       print ("%s:%s has connected." % clinet_address)
       client.send(bytes("Greetings from the cave!" + "Now type your name and press enter!"),"utf8")
       addresses[client] = client_address
       Thread(target = handle_client, args = (client,)).start()

at the code here:

client,client_address = SERVER.accept()

I try to make the variable 'client_address' store the IP address of the client, but while running it, it turns out getting nothing. This variable was not assigned any value at all. After I checked the value stored in 'client', I found this :

'<socket.socket fd=4, family=AddressFamily.AF_INET, type=SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0, laddr=('10.146.0.2', 33000), raddr=('104.38.51.137', 62283)>'

in the 'raddr' part, I found my client IP address and port, so why is that? I do remember the accept() function has two return valve. If there is really only one return value, how am I suppose to extract the client IP and port from this return valve?

just in case of need, I will also post my client code here:

import socket               # Import Socket module
import time

myname = input ("input you username>>")
s = socket.socket()         # Create a Socket object
ip= "35.200.59.31" 
port = 33000                # setup port number

s.connect((ip, port))
s.send(bytes(myname, encoding="utf-8"))
print (s.recv(1024))
username=str(input("input user name>>"))
s.send(bytes(username))

flag=True
while flag:
    signal=s.recv(1024)
    if signal == (bytes("xxx", encoding = "utf-8")):
        tosend=(input(">>>"))
        s.send(bytes(tosend))
        print (">>",tosend)
        if tosend=="quit":
            flag = False
    else :
        print (">>>",signal)
s.close()  

Upvotes: 1

Views: 799

Answers (1)

De Santa Michell
De Santa Michell

Reputation: 133

Thanks, everyone! my problem is basically solved. Here is the fixed codes:

clients = {}
addresses = {}

HOST = ''
PORT = 33000
BUFSIZ = 1024
ADDR = (HOST, PORT)
SERVER = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
SERVER.bind(ADDR)

def accept_incoming_connections():
    while True:
       client, client_address = SERVER.accept()
       print ("The Client address is: ")
       print (client_address[0])
       print (str(client_address[0]) + " has connected.")
       client.send(bytes("Greetings from the cave!" + "Now type your name and press enter!",'utf8'))
       addresses[client] = client_address[0]
           Thread(target = handle_client, args = (client,)).start()

Though there are still a few other problems(probably logic problems), at least it will compile and run now. Again, thanks!

Upvotes: 1

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