taclt.py

import socket

playing = True

def recieveMessage():
    print "hi!"
    data = s.recv(512).decode()

    if data == "Greetings\n":
        print("Welcome to the number guessing game.")
    elif data == "Far\n":
        print("Your guess was far from the correct number.")
    elif data == "Close\n":
        print("Your guess was close to the correct number.")
    elif data == "Correct\n":
        print("Your guess was correct. Thankyou for playing.")
        global playing
        playing = False

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect(("127.0.0.1", 4000))
s.send(("Hello\n").encode())
recieveMessage()

while playing:
    guess = input("What is your guess? ")
    totalGuess = ("Guess: " + guess)
    s.send(totalGuess.encode())
    recieveMessage()

s.close()

tasvr.py

import select
import socket
import random
import ssl

sockList = []
playing = False
guesses = 0
guess = 0

def adminCommand():
    for s in sockList:
        c.send((s).encode('utf-8'))

def within(value, goal, n):
    difference = abs(value - goal)
    if difference <= n:
        return True
    else:
        return False

def recieveGuess(guess):
    guess = cl.recv(4096).decode()
    guessList = guess.split(" ")
    if guessList[0] == "Who":
        adminCommand()
    return int(guessList[1])

client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
admin = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

client.bind(("127.0.0.1", 4000))
admin.bind(("127.0.0.1", 4001))

client.listen(5)
admin.listen(1)

sockList.append(client)
sockList.append(admin)

while True:
    print "svrCheckingin"
    r, w, err = select.select(sockList, [], [])

    for sock in r:

        if sock == client:
            print 'sockclient'
            cl,a = client.accept()
            sockList.append(client)
        else:
            print 'about to try'
            try:
                if cl.recv(4096).decode() == "Hello\n":
                    playing = True
                    cl.send(("Greetings\n").encode('utf-8'))
                    numberToGuess = random.randint(1,20)
                    print(numberToGuess)
                while playing:
                    if recieveGuess(guess) == numberToGuess:
                        cl.send(("Correct\n").encode('utf-8'))
                        playing = False
                        cl.close()
                    elif within(numberToGuess, guess, 2):
                        cl.send(("Close\n").encode('utf-8'))
                    else:
                        cl.send(("Far\n").encode('utf-8'))
            except:
                sock.close()
                sockList.remove(sock)
                continue

client.close()
admin.close()