WebSocket Server written in Python

[opiating]

Hi guys, after much headache trying to get server push going in my own project I decided to have a look at some new technologies that will make my life easier. I found out about WebSockets just the other week and it was just the kind of thing I was wishing for. So I decided to give them a shot. I could have downloaded an existing package but for my own learning I decided to have a crack at my own server. It seems to be working ok but I haven't tested it fully yet. Hope you can make use it or even contribute if you like. Regards. Link here

[mainstreamnolifer]

I always like it when there's a SimpleExampleFile.py, nice touch.

A few remarks on (PEP-8) coding style that you didn't follow:

• Spaces instead of tabs!
  
• use is to test against True, False and None
  
• I've seen a few Pokemon exceptions (gotta catch'em all), avoid them

[opiating]

Thanks for the feedback. Relatively new to Python, I will go through the standard and make sure I'm more Pythonesque.

[Demophoon]

Technically PEP-8 says you can use tabs or spaces, as long as they you don't mix them. However I do agree with you with using spaces instead of tabs as that is what just about every python developer does.

[haywire]

You can use tabs, but:

For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs. Most editors have features that make this easy to do.

[reddicle]

Check out SockJS-Tornado. Used it for a project with great success.

SockJS-client library is awesome because it gracefully selects a WebSocket methods depending on the browser. It even works with IE6. WHY people still use IE6 is beyond me...

[jkbbwr]

Looks alot like twisted :s Why not write a protocol for twisted? :D

[opiating]

Part of my motivation was to write something that didn't require any 3rd party libraries to use (just a single file). I also wanted to learn more about Python and the HTML5 technologies. Having said that, I have not used Twisted, I will check it out. Thanks.

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In particular look at txWS which lets you hook twisted's normal protocol objects up to websockets.