How do I connect to a UDP port in Python?
Question: Like everyone else, I can say "I've tried everything!" I kind of did. I looked
all over StackOverflow, and tried all the answers, but got nothing. Anyways, I
am jetting to at least get some code printed by Python before I get even
further in developing this.

I want to receive UDP packets from my Garry's Mod server (logaddress_add
MyIP:7131), and I don't seem to be receiving any of those packets. It's most
likely not a router firewall problem, as I can use HLSW on my other computer.
I have used Wireshark, and didn't see any data from my server's IP. I used the
Python interpreter / [made some
code](http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket-example) (although
example was TCP) to see if I got any data--to make sure Wireshark wasn't doing
anything wrong--and nothing came to it either. Am I doing something silly?

    
    
    import socket
    
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    sock.bind(('0.0.0.0', 7131))
    
    sock.settimeout(10)
    sock.recv(1024)
    

Edit : I was doing some testing with HLSW, and found out it seems to be doing
some kind of magic. When you try to logaddress_add the certain Port that is
not HLSW (say 7135), it won't do anything. Wireshark won't do anything at all.
Doesn't show any logs, anything. But, when you change HLSW to use the port
that you just added (7135), Wireshark suddenly gets a flow of data, including
the console data that I am jetting for. Is it some kind of configuration HLSW
is changing?


Answer: (Not quite an answer, but a diagnostic path that might lead to an answer.
Sometimes it helps just to know that it actually worked for someone else.)

I've entered the above into a Python console, and then typed the code below
into another Python console:

    
    
    import socket
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    sock.sendto('hello', 0, ('127.0.0.1', 7131))
    

The message popped out on the original console. I repeated the experiment from
another machine, using a '192.168...' address instead, and it popped out
again.

