import socket import sys host = "localhost" port = 20000 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect((host, port)) data = sys.argv[1] s.send(data) x = 0 while x == 0: data = s.recv(1000000) i = 1 if (i < 5): print data if not data: break s.close