(Newbie) Help with sockets.

[Miki]

Hello,

> Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to Python, and even more new to socket
> programming. I think I've wrapped my head around sockets, and with
> that I want to create a Telnet-based chat server, the idea being
> people connect to the telnet servers with their clients and they all
> communicate.
IMO you should start with twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/),
which simplifies socket programming very much.

HTH,
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