communicating with another python program over the internet [closed]

Question

I need to make a chess multi-player game that works over the internet. I am a beginner to programming and networking alike, although I have managed the GUI based chess platform. Now I need to overcome the challenge of configuring the game over the internet. In order to do that, I would like to use a third party application or software (anything but socket programming) to make the python programs running on two machines talk to each other. What I am hoping to do is, that whenever someone makes a move, I want to send a string/list of the updated coordinates of his/her chess pieces over the internet to the second player, so that he can see what move has been made. Can anyone please tell where to start from or what to read regarding the same? Is the idea of sending the updated string/ list of coordinates feasable using an open source chat utility like telepathy?

Answer 1

You'd want to use the socket module. Example programs. It really isn't so difficult to use socket, basically the server end has to bind(), listen(), then accept() and the client has to simply connect(). From there recv() and sendall() can be used to receive and send data respectively. If you really don't want to use socket, then you could use a chat protocol like IRC or XMPP.