Python, socket.error: [Errno 10049]

Question

Working on a base for a simple chat client, and got the following error:
socket.error: [Errno 10049] The requested address is not valid in its context

The code is:

from socket import *
HOST = ''
PORT = 8000
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
i = True
while i is True:
 msg = raw_input("Write A MSG: ")
 s.send(msg)
 print "Awaiting reply"
 reply = s.recv(1024)
 print "Recived: ", repr(reply)
s.close()

Thanks for helping.

• CDspace: Which line is the error on? Also, possible duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/7162869/…
• François Moisan: You can look here for windows error codes which seems to be the platform you are using. I suspect the problem you have is that your HOST variable is empty.
• JadedTuna: Please provide full traceback
• ZF007: Possible duplicate of Python Sockets/SocketServer Connection

Answer 1

The error is:

...
s.connect((HOST, PORT))

And it is because HOST = "". You may use HOST = "" when binding sockets. But when connecting, you should use HOST = "localhost" or HOST = "someaddr.com".

• DanGoodrick: HOST can also be the IP address of another machine on the network, right? e.g. '130.132.234.14'

Answer 2

IP address (HOST) is not correct. If you want to access it from local computer you can use '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost'. To access from anywhere use '0.0.0.0'.