import socket import sys # Create a TCP/IP socket sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # Connect the socket to the port where the server is listening server_address = ('192.168.1.15', 20320) print >>sys.stderr, 'connecting to %s port %s' % server_address sock.connect(server_address) try: # Send data message = 'This is the message. It will be repeated.' print >>sys.stderr, 'sending "%s"' % message sock.sendall(message + "\n") # Look for the response amount_received = 0 amount_expected = len(message) while amount_received < amount_expected: data = sock.recv(16) amount_received += len(data) print >>sys.stderr, 'received "%s"' % data finally: print >>sys.stderr, 'closing socket' sock.close()