Handle multiple requests with select

Question

currently I am working on a chat server/client project. I am struggling with handling multiple requests with select, my server script uses the select module but the client s

Answer 1

my server script uses the select module but the client script doesn't.

A solution is to use select also in the client. On Windows unfortunately select does not handle sys.stdin, but we can use the timeout argument to poll the keyboard.

import socket
import select
import msvcrt
client_socket = socket.socket()
client_socket.connect(("localhost", 2855))
msg = ""
while True:
    ready = select.select([client_socket], [], [], .1)
    if client_socket in ready[0]:
        data = client_socket.recv(1024)
        print data, ' '*(len(msg)-len(data))
        print msg,
    if msvcrt.kbhit():
        key = msvcrt.getche()
        if key == '\r': # Enter key
            if msg == "quit":
                break
            client_socket.send(msg)
            msg = ""
            print
        else:
            msg = msg + "" + key
client_socket.close()