Socket Programming (python)

******** client.py

#!/usr/bin/python

#importing socket module for socket creation and sys for user input/output

import socket

import sys

## to accept user input of hostname and port

(host,port)=(sys.argv[1],int(sys.argv[2]))

print "host is",host

print "port is",port

#creating and a socket and connecting to host via port

socket=socket.socket()

socket.connect((host, port))

#prompting user for input 

input=raw_input("user>")

while input != "bye":

  socket.send(input)

  data=str(socket.recv(65535))

  print data 

  input=raw_input("user>")

socket.close()

******** server.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import socket

import sys

#import subprocess

import commands

socket=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)

#socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

server=("localhost",12000)

socket.bind(server)

socket.listen(5)

conn,clientip=socket.accept()

var=1

while var==1:

 print "conn accepted"

 data=str(conn.recv(65635))

 print "data received"

 if data != "" and data != "bye":

#   p = subprocess.Popen(['ls'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

   result=commands.getoutput(data)

   print "printing result:" ,result

   print "sending result"

 if result =="":

   result = " "

 conn.send(result)

 print "result sent"

 if data == "bye":

   conn.close

   socket.close

******** result

siakas-MacBook-Pro:PYTHON siaka$ ./client.py localhost 12000

host is localhost

port is 12000

user>ls -lh

total 56

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   534B Jun 14 05:54 client.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   1.2K Jun 14 03:46 client2.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff    86B Jun 14 04:01 cmd.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   154B Jun 14 03:39 getargs.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   594B Jun 13 20:47 python.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   1.5K Jun 14 03:45 serv1.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   703B Jun 14 05:56 server.py

user>touch file{1..10}

user>ls -lh

total 56

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   534B Jun 14 05:54 client.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   1.2K Jun 14 03:46 client2.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff    86B Jun 14 04:01 cmd.py

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file1

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file10

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file2

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file3

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file4

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file5

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file6

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file7

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file8

-rw-r--r--  1 siaka  staff     0B Jun 14 18:29 file9

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   154B Jun 14 03:39 getargs.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   594B Jun 13 20:47 python.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   1.5K Jun 14 03:45 serv1.py

-rwxr-xr-x  1 siaka  staff   703B Jun 14 05:56 server.py

user>bye

siakas-MacBook-Pro:PYTHON siaka$