sockserv.py Python Socket library

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Introduction

sockserv is a Python module for easily creating command/response socket servers (for example, SMTP, POP, NNTP, etc...). It also includes code for connecting to such servers and interacting with them. It has been used internally to create a header-rewriting SMTP proxy server, POP3, and regular SMTP server (each in under 100 lines of code), and a light-weight phone database server in 51 lines.

The server runs as a single process, multiplexing access to the different clients. Therefore, it's best suited to tasks which don't block for long periods of time.

This code has been in internal use for over a year before it's public release. It's reasonably stable and has been in operation as an NNTP proxy in which it ran for nearly 6 months without restarting.

Requirements

Python: a current version (1.5.1+) to work. You can get source (and binaries for selected systems) from www.python.org.

Advantages

• A *VERY* high-level interface to Unix sockets (the Python library socket module is a very thin wrapper on top of the Unix socket API).
• Reduces time required to code socket applications.

Getting Started

sockserv includes full inline documentation. See the source for examples and documentation on it's use.

Copyright

sockserv (source, documentation and all related matter) is copyright © 1998, 1999 Sean Reifschneider, tummy.com, ltd. The source is available under the Tummy Public License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use sockserv except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at this link