briannaSocket.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
A simple echo client
"""

import select
import socket
import sys
from socket import AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, timeout

host = "localhost"
port = 8023
size = 1024

s = socket.socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
running = 1

s.connect((host,port))
s.send(bytes('Hello, I am connected to you.', 'UTF-8'))

while running:
  try:
    inputready,outputready,exceptready = select.select([sys.stdin],[],[])
    for s in inputready:
      if s == sys.stdin:
        # handle standard input
        junk = sys.stdin.readline()
        running = 0
      else:
        data = s.recv(size)
        print ('Recieved:', repr(data))
        s.shutdown(1)
  except timeout:
    s.send (bytes('I am closed now, bye.', 'UTF-8'))
    break

print ('I shut down, bye forever')