🔒 sending and receivingg packets via socket

[wanton glacier]

import socket
import random
import time


sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) #opens a new socket

bytes = random._urandom(1024) #creates packet

ip = input("Target IP:")

port = input("Port :")

duration = input("duration :")

timeout = time.time() + duration
sent = 0

while True :
    if time.time() > timeout:
        break
    else:
        pass
    sock.sendto(bytes,(ip, port))
    sent = sent + 1
    print ("sent %s packet to %s through port %s")%(sent, ip , port)
    
#Traceback (most recent call last):
  #File "/home/arctichonour/packets.py", line 16, in <module>
    #timeout = time.time() + duration
#TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'float' and 'str'

[sterile reef]

@wanton glacier

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[misty latch]

This isn't a socket problem. Remember that input always returns a string. If you want to interpret what the user entered as a number, you need to do that conversion yourself using int or float before doing math on it.

[wanton glacier]

oh silly mistake

[misty latch]

Just a tip, always read the error carefully. It's telling you exactly what the problem is.

float and str means that the left operand to + was a float, and the right operand was a string.

[wanton glacier]

!close

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