Creating a UDP Server

A UDP server is easily created using the socketserver library.

a simple time server:

import time
from socketserver import BaseRequestHandler, UDPServer

class CtimeHandler(BaseRequestHandler):
    def handle(self):
    print('connection from: ', self.client_address)
    # Get message and client socket
    msg, sock = self.request
    resp = time.ctime()
    sock.sendto(resp.encode('ascii'), self.client_address)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    server = UDPServer(('', 5000), CtimeHandler)
    server.serve_forever()

Testing:

>>> from socket import socket, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM
>>> sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
>>> sick.sendto(b'', ('localhost', 5000))
0
>>> sock.recvfrom(8192)
(b'Wed Aug 15 20:35:08 2012', ('127.0.0.1', 5000))

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