A chating server

server.py

import socket,select

port = 12345

socket_list = []

users = {}

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

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

server_socket.bind(('',port))

server_socket.listen(5)

socket_list.append(server_socket)

while True:

ready_to_read,ready_to_write,in_error = select.select(socket_list,[],[],0)

for sock in ready_to_read:

if sock == server_socket:

connect, addr = server_socket.accept()

socket_list.append(connect)

connect.send("You are connected from:" + str(addr))

else:

try:

data = sock.recv(2048)

if data.startswith("#"):

users[data[1:].lower()]=connect

print "User " + data[1:] +" added."

connect.send("Your user detail saved as : "+str(data[1:]))

elif data.startswith("@"):

users[data[1:data.index(':')].lower()].send(data[data.index(':')+1:])

except:

continue

server_socket.close()