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I have this code

 class HNCS (ThreadingTCPServer):

    def verify_request(self, request, client_address):

        for key in connections:

            if connections[key].client_address[0] == client_address[0]:

                if client_address[0] != '127.0.0.1':

                    return False

        return True

    def welcome(self):

        return '''______________________________________________________
------------------------------------------------------
%s
______________________________________________________
------------------------------------------------------
* Server started %s
* Waiting for connections on port %i
''' % (gpl, ctime(), PORT)

I only can't figure out the line where it says if connections[key].client_address[0] == client_address[0]

how come we used client_address as an attribute after dictionary???

Amber · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-29 23:41:39Z

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Perhaps the dictionary is storing values which are objects that happen to have a client_address member property?

In other words, the .client_address there isn't the same thing as the client_address passed in as an argument. Instead, it's the name of a field within a class that happens to be stored in connections[key].

answered Apr 29, 2010 at 23:41

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0xab3d Over a year ago

don't bother ur self, got :D thnx dude

0xab3d Over a year ago

another question, what happens when I say inside a class test[self.name]=self does this mean that the object itself with its attributes is stored in the list with the name give???

Amber Over a year ago

A reference to the object is, yes.

OscarRyz · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-30 00:16:42Z

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Because the connections dictionary may have an object with a client_address attribute?

Like:

class SomeClass(object):
     def __init__( self, address ) :
          self.client_address = address

connections = {"oscar":SomeClass(["127.0.0.1","192.60.0.1"])}

for key in connections:
    print connections[key].client_address[0]

edit

A dict is a dictionary where a value may be stored using a key. When you request that key again, you get the value back, is that simple.

So in my previous example, the line:

connections = {"oscar":SomeClass(["127.0.0.1","192.60.0.1"])}

Could have been written as:

connection = []
connections["oscar"] = SomeClass(["1","2"])
s = connections["oscar"]

In your comment test[self.name] = self your storing the object represented by self into the test dictionary using name as the key.

edited Apr 30, 2010 at 0:16

answered Apr 29, 2010 at 23:47

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0xab3d Over a year ago

another question, what happens when I say inside a class test[self.name]=self does this mean that the object itself with its attributes is stored in the list with the name give???

bobince · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-30 00:17:50Z

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    for key in connections:
        if connections[key].client_address[0] == client_address[0]:

This is simply looking at all the values stored in the connections dictionary, to see if any of their properties named client_address have the same first item (IP address) as the local variable client_address. It's not necessary for the variable to have the same name as the property of the value in the dictionary.

What it's saying is: abort the connection if another connection from the same IP address is already being served. (Except for localhost, which is allowed to have as many connections as it likes.)

It could be re-spelled as:

def verify_request(self, request, new_client_addr):
    ip= new_client_addr[0]
    active_ips= [value.client_address[0] for value in connections.values()]
    return ip not in active_ips or ip=='127.0.0.1'

answered Apr 30, 2010 at 0:17

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bobince Over a year ago

@kmitnick: There is no function overloading in Python.

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