import sys from socket import *              # portable socket interface plus constants 
serverHost = 'localhost'          # server name, or: 'starship.python.net' 
serverPort = 50007                # non-reserved port used by the server 
message = ['Hello network world']           # default text to send to server 
if len(sys.argv) > 1: 
    serverHost = sys.argv[1]                # or server from cmd line arg 1 
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:                   # or text from cmd line args 2..n 
        message = sys.argv[2:]              # one message for each arg listed 
sockobj = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)      # make a TCP/IP socket object 
sockobj.connect((serverHost, serverPort))   # connect to server  
 machine and port 
for line in message: 
    sockobj.send(line)                      # send line to server over socket 
    data = sockobj.recv(1024)               # receive line from server: up to 1k 
    print 'Client received:', repr(data)    # make sure it is quoted, was 'x' 
sockobj.close( )                             # close socket to send eof to server