Python socket programming

[iainms]

Hi, i'm fairly new to python (just started using it today infact), and fairly new to programming for that matter.

For my first python program, i've managed to code a simple chat program that allows text to be sent to and from computers on my network. I've also created a GUI for this program using wxpython and it seems to work ok.

However, I'm stumped when I try to integrate my chat program into the GUI i created for it. The problem is that wherever I insert the code to listen for a connection (s.listen(1)) my GUI hangs until it gets a connection request. Is there any way of getting my program to listen for a TCP connection without locking up my GUI?

Any help would be appreciated..

 

[EBGreen]

I'm not positive and I porbably don't know much more Python than you do, but If I were trying to do this, then I would split off the listener as a seperate thread then have it signal back to the GUI thread when something came through on the port it was listening to.

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[ericbrunson]

did you try s.setblocking(0)?

 

[iainms]

Thanks for the suggestion. I think you're right but I dont have the slightest clue about multi-threaded applications. Oh well, better get google-ing.

 

[iainms]

did you try s.setblocking(0)?

Yeah i did but it returns :
socket.error: (10035, 'The socket operation could not complete without blocking')

I dont think i'm doing it right. Where do I put that line of code, is it before or after s.listen(1)??