#!/usr/bin/env python """ A simple echo server. Taken from http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#example. """ import socket HOST = 'localhost' # Symbolic name meaning local interfaces PORT = 12345 # Arbitrary non-privileged port s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((HOST, PORT)) print '\nListening on %s:%d' % (HOST, PORT) s.listen(1) conn, addr = s.accept() print 'Connected by', addr while 1: data = conn.recv(1024) if not data: break conn.send(data) print 'Received:', data conn.close()