What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project)

[Eric S. Johansson]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:36:17 -0400, Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat  
> system will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done.
>
> I wanted to know what will I need? I think that would require me these
> 1 learn network/socket programming
> 2 find a free server to host my chat server
> 3 GUI development for clients
>

Not discourage you but this is a "been there, done that" kind of project.  
You could learn more from reading somebody else is code. What hasn't been  
done, and this would be very cool, is a chat program that works  
peer-to-peer with no central server. To do this, you would probably need  
to know about distributed hash tables and methods of piercing address  
translation firewalls (think UDP).

First however, I would suggest taking a look at https://jitsi.org/ and see  
how they do things. You can learn a lot from these people. They are very  
smart.