Sockets in python

Hey there guys, been looking into sockets in python recently but i'm having a little trouble getting my program to work rite.

It's just a random number generator game but I want to make it available over a network. So people can connect, play and then quit. I know how to open a socket then close it. I've done the basic examples in some tutorials but what I don't get(and i'm sure it's something stupid that i'm just not realising) is how to actually incorporate it into my program.

Code:

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print "Hello, World!"
#I put "Hello World" into all of my programs.  Just as a kind of good practise thing.

# Guessing Game
import random
# Start while loop
number = random.randrange(1,100)
guess = 0


while guess != number:
  guess = int(raw_input("What is your guess? "))
  if guess == number:
      print "Well done you got it!"
  elif guess < number:
      print "Sorry it's higher than that"
  elif guess > number:
      print "Sorry it's lower than that"
  else:
      break

print
print "Thanks for playing random!"

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That's the game. I'm sure it's pretty ugly code so if anyones got any suggestions on how to clean it up that would also be cool.

Here is the socket example I got from a tutorial

Code:

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print "Hello, World!"

# A simple echo server
"""
A simple echo server
"""

import socket

host = ''
port = 50000
backlog = 5
size = 1024
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((host,port))
s.listen(backlog)
while 1:
  client, address = s.accept()
  data = client.recv(size)
  if data:
      client.send(data)
  client.close()

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Heh, I'm not a Python guy, but sockets are usually a general concept based around the Berkeley C implementation. In that essecene you generally would write to the socket as if though it were a file. See in C a socket descriptor is pretty much the same as a file descriptor except that you can only move through it sequentially and can't seek back and forth like you can through a file. Not sure how python handles files though so this could be totally different. **** maybe py treats a socket as a descriptor or maybe its a class. if it is a descriptor you should be able to write to it just like a file. If it is a class then see if socket has methods like write or send and read or recv. I'll try and get a glimpse at pythons socket implementation and point you better when I'm sober and such.