I've been trying everything I can to run this code, but I can't figure out what the issue is. It's a server/client chat program in python 3. The error I'm getting is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/nate/Desktop/soc_chat/server_soc.py", line 48,<module>
handler = ClientHandler(client, record)
NameError: name 'record' is not defined
I'm not sure how I can fix this issue. Any help would be great. I'm on ubuntu, with python 3 installed. I've tried running the code as 'python3 myFile.py' in the terminal instead of 'python myFile.py' also to make sure it's not trying to run it as python 2. As I said, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the code(server side):
from socket import *
from codecs import decode
from chatrecord import ChatRecord
from threading import Thread
from time import ctime
class ClientHandler(Thread):
def __init__(self, client, record):
Thread.__init__(self)
self._client = client
self._record = record
def run(self):
self._client.send(bytes('Welcome', CODE))
self._name = decode(self._client.recv(BUFSIZE), CODE)
self._client.send(bytes(str(self._record), CODE))
while True:
message = decode(self._client.recv(BUFSIZE), CODE)
if not message:
print('Client disconnected')
self._client.close()
break
else:
message = self._name + '' + \
ctime() + '\n' + message
self._record.add(message)
self._client.send(bytes(str(self._record), CODE))
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 5000
BUFSIZE = 1024
ADDRESS = (HOST, PORT)
CODE = 'ascii'
server = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
server.bind(ADDRESS)
server.listen(5)
while True:
print('Waiting for connection...')
client, address = server.accept()
print('...connected from:', address)
handler = ClientHandler(client, record)
handler.start()
Code(Client Side):
from socket import *
from codecs import decode
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 5000
BUFSIZE = 1024
ADDRESS = (HOST, PORT)
CODE = 'ascii'
server = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
server.connect(ADDRESS)
print(decode(server.recv(BUFSIZE), CODE))
name = input('Enter your name: ')
server.send(bytes(name, CODE))
while True:
record = decode(server.recv(BUFSIZE), CODE)
if not record:
print('server disconnected')
break
print(record)
message = input('> ')
if not message:
print('Server disconnected')
break
server.send(bytes(message, CODE))
server.close()
Code(chatrecord.py)
class ChatRecord(object):
def __init__(self):
self.data = []
def add(self, s):
self.data.appent(s)
def __str__(self):
if len(self.data) == 0:
return 'No messages yet!'
else:
return '\n'.join(self.data)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you forgot the following line:
record = ChatRecord()
You import the class but never use it in the server-side code.
Note that you misspelled list.append()
in the ChatRecord.add()
method:
def add(self, s):
self.data.appent(s)
# ^