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Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project)

Subject Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project)
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Date 2013-07-18 01:39 -0400
From "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.4825.1374126008.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:36:17 -0400, Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat  
> system will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done.
>
> I wanted to know what will I need? I think that would require me these
> 1 learn network/socket programming
> 2 find a free server to host my chat server
> 3 GUI development for clients
>

Not discourage you but this is a "been there, done that" kind of project.  
You could learn more from reading somebody else is code. What hasn't been  
done, and this would be very cool, is a chat program that works  
peer-to-peer with no central server. To do this, you would probably need  
to know about distributed hash tables and methods of piercing address  
translation firewalls (think UDP).

First however, I would suggest taking a look at https://jitsi.org/ and see  
how they do things. You can learn a lot from these people. They are very  
smart.

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What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 21:36 -0700
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) vikash agrawal <vikashagrawal1990@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 10:22 +0530
    Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 23:11 -0700
      Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 16:25 +1000
        Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 23:36 -0700
          Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 01:49 -0500
            Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 00:05 -0700
              Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 17:13 +1000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 00:29 -0700
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 17:34 +1000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 00:48 -0700
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 17:52 +1000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 01:10 -0700
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 18:37 +1000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) aseem bansal <aseembansal@ymail.com> - 2013-07-18 01:04 -0700
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-18 13:04 -0400
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 20:55 +0300
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-18 18:02 +0000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Owen Marshall <o@owenmarshall.invalid> - 2013-07-18 18:19 +0000
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 16:40 -0600
                Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Owen Marshall <o@owenmarshall.invalid> - 2013-07-19 00:54 +0000
          Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 16:49 +1000
        Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-18 13:00 +0000
        Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-07-19 11:25 +0000
          Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 21:56 +1000
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2013-07-18 01:39 -0400
    Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 22:50 -0700
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 16:15 +1000
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-07-18 16:34 -0600
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Jake Angulo <jake.angulo@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 17:10 +1000
  Re: What does it take to implement a chat system in Python (Not asking for code just advice before I start my little project) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 17:17 +1000

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