Writing a small battleship game server in Python

[Dan]

> The server should accept connections from new players and be able to handle 
> multiple games concurrently.

Multiple threads would be the way to go for a real application. But if
you want to avoid the complexity involved in threading and
synchronization in this exercize, you can avoid threads by using
"select" instead:
  http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-select.html

The "select" function allows you to determine (without blocking) which
sockets have input available.

Python's "select" is a wrapper for the C function with the same name. On
Unix you can learn more about it using "man select".

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