import socket HOST = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) PORT = 8887 data = 'flibble' # sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # # Connect to server and send data # sock.connect((HOST, PORT)) # sock.send(data + "\n") # # Receive data from the server and shut down # received = sock.recv(1024) # sock.close() # SOCK_DGRAM is the socket type to use for UDP sockets sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) sock.sendto(data + "\n", (HOST, PORT)) received = sock.recv(1024) print("Sent: %s" % data) print("Received: %s" % received)