MicroPython Projects

socket_connect()

We are going to create a function that allows us to connect to a socket server. The function definition is as follows:

def socket_connect(address, port):    s.settimeout(1.0)    addr_info = socket.getaddrinfo(address, port)    addr = addr_info[0][-1]    try:        print("Attempting to connect to socket server ...")        s.connect(addr)        print("Connection successful!")    except Exception as e:        print(e)

As you can see, we pass in an IP address and port number for where the socket server is located. We then use socket.getaddrinfo to create the addr_info object that can be passed into the socket connect method. We wrap the connection attempt in try/except just in case we run into a connection issue, such as the server not existing.

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