Implementing a simple socket server with AsyncIO

The AsyncIO library provided by the Python implementation provides a lot of powerful functionality. One of these many functionalities is the ability to interface and manage socket communication. This provides the programmer with the ability to implement asynchronous socket handling and, hence, allows for a higher number of clients to connect to the server.

The following code sample builds a simple socket handler with the callback-based mechanism to handle the communication with the clients:

# async_socket_server.py#!/usr/bin/python3import asyncioclass MessageProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):    """An asyncio protocol implementation to handle the incoming messages.""" def connection_made(self, transport): ...

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