#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Tcp Chat server import socket, select #Function to broadcast chat messages to all connected clients def broadcast_data (sock, message): if isinstance(message, str): message = message.encode("UTF-8") #Do not send the message to master socket and the client who has send us the message for socket in CONNECTION_LIST: if socket != server_socket and socket != sock : try : socket.send(message) except : # broken socket connection may be, chat client pressed ctrl+c for example socket.close() CONNECTION_LIST.remove(socket) if __name__ == "__main__": # List to keep track of socket descriptors CONNECTION_LIST = [] RECV_BUFFER = 4096 # Advisable to keep it as an exponent of 2 PORT = 1234 server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # this has no effect, why ? server_socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) server_socket.bind(("0.0.0.0", PORT)) server_socket.listen(10) # Add server socket to the list of readable connections CONNECTION_LIST.append(server_socket) print("Chat server started on port", PORT) while 1: # Get the list sockets which are ready to be read through select read_sockets,write_sockets,error_sockets = select.select(CONNECTION_LIST,[],[]) for sock in read_sockets: #New connection if sock == server_socket: # Handle the case in which there is a new connection recieved through server_socket sockfd, addr = server_socket.accept() CONNECTION_LIST.append(sockfd) print("Client", addr, "connected") broadcast_data(sockfd, "[%s:%s] entered room\n" % addr) #Some incoming message from a client else: # Data recieved from client, process it try: #In Windows, sometimes when a TCP program closes abruptly, # a "Connection reset by peer" exception will be thrown data = sock.recv(RECV_BUFFER) if data: broadcast_data(sock, "\r" + '<' + str(sock.getpeername()) + '> ' + data.decode("UTF-8")) except Exception as e: broadcast_data(sock, "Client (%s, %s) is offline" % addr) print(e) print("Client", addr, "is offline") sock.close() CONNECTION_LIST.remove(sock) continue server_socket.close()