#! /usr/bin/env python import socket, sys host = 'localhost' port = 54321 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) s.bind((host, port)) s.listen(1) print "Server is running in port %d" % port while 1: clientsock, clientaddr = s.accept() clientfile = clientsock.makefile('rw', 0) clientfile.write("Welcome, " + str(clientaddr) + '\n') clientfile.write("Please enter a string: ") line = clientfile.readline().strip() clientfile.write("You entered %d characters.\n" % len(line)) clientfile.close() clientsock.close()