add example using serversocket from https://docs.python.org/2/library/socketserver.html

socketserver/TcpThreaded.py

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+import socket
+import threading
+import SocketServer
+
+class ThreadedTCPRequestHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
+
+    def handle(self):
+        data = self.request.recv(1024)
+        cur_thread = threading.current_thread()
+        response = "{}: {}".format(cur_thread.name, data)
+        self.request.sendall(response)
+
+class ThreadedTCPServer(SocketServer.ThreadingMixIn, SocketServer.TCPServer):
+    pass
+
+def client(ip, port, message):
+    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+    sock.connect((ip, port))
+    try:
+        sock.sendall(message)
+        response = sock.recv(1024)
+        print "Received: {}".format(response)
+    finally:
+        sock.close()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Port 0 means to select an arbitrary unused port
+    HOST, PORT = "localhost", 0
+
+    server = ThreadedTCPServer((HOST, PORT), ThreadedTCPRequestHandler)
+    ip, port = server.server_address
+
+    # Start a thread with the server -- that thread will then start one
+    # more thread for each request
+    server_thread = threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever)
+    # Exit the server thread when the main thread terminates
+    server_thread.daemon = True
+    server_thread.start()
+    print "Server loop running in thread:", server_thread.name
+
+    client(ip, port, "Hello World 1")
+    client(ip, port, "Hello World 2")
+    client(ip, port, "Hello World 3")
+
+    server.shutdown()