import socket sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect(('localhost', 8881)) print "Connected to server" data = """A few lines of data to test the operation of both server and client.""" for line in data.splitlines( ): sock.sendall(line+'\n') print "Sent:", line response = sock.recv(8192) print "Received:", response sock.close( )