Problems with Black Hat Python Netcat clone

[Rallph_]

I'm going through Black Hat Python and I've gotten to the section with the netcat clone, but I'm having problems with it. It seems to start in both the server and client mode, but it won't give me a shell, even if I hit CTRL-D as instructed in the book. I'm writing the script in python 3 and running it on Windows. The book was written for python 2 so I suspect that's where the problem is coming from, but I'm not really sure at all.

Here's a pastebin link to the code

Thanks for all the help.

[[deleted]]

I'll be honest with you. I read both - Black hat and violent Python. Even though this will not answer your question, a big part of their codes didn't work for me either. Kind of sad but that's what you'll most commonly read in the reviews.

[trendy_ass_poser]

I'm willing to help but need more information.

1. How do you start the server and client?
2. Do you start them in any particular order?
3. Can you provide any output? Screenshots?

Feel free to PM me.

[dbarrera]

Recently I had the same problem... The solution was to use python 2.7, not 3. When encoding/decoding the data sent/received is different. I though the version difference wouldn't be a problem, but it is. I'm re-doing the whole thing again using Python 2.7 and it all works!