Python Network Programming

How it works...

In this recipe, we have created a ServerThread subclass inheriting from the Python threading library's thread class. This subclass initializes a server attribute that creates an instance of the SimpleXMLRPC server. The XML-RPC server address can be given through the command-line input. In order to enable the multicall function, we called the register_multicall_functions() method on the server instance.

Then, four trivial functions are registered with this XML-RPC server: add(), subtract(), multiply(), and divide().

These functions do exactly the same operation as their names suggest.

In order to launch the server, we pass a host and port to the run_server() function. A server instance is created using the ServerThread class ...