import socket ip = "localhost" port = 8888 connection = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) connection.connect((ip, port)) while 1: data = connection.recv(8192) data = data.decode("utf-8") print(data) if len(data.split())<1: pass elif data.split()[0] == "CONNECT" or data.split()[0] == "YOUR": connection.sendall(input().encode())