How to send integer through socket in python - python-3.x

Question

Actually, I want to send integers through the server to client and vice versa. So that I can apply some operations on them on the client/server side. But whenever I a try to send integers, the server or client gets automatically destroyed even without sending the message. I have also used a while loop but it's not working as it was supposed to do?
Also, it works fine when I send strings (encoded)
--->server side<----
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
print("--------------->SERVER<-----------------")
ip = "127.0.0.1"
port = 8080
s.bind((ip,port))
s.listen(2)
conn,addr = s.accept()
print("CONNECTED WITH THE CLIENT\n")
while True:
#for sending message
temp_msg = input("SERVER - ")
message = int(temp_msg.encode())
conn.send(message)
#for receiving message
rec_msg = conn.recv(1024)
print("CLIENT - ",rec_msg, " type = ", type(rec_msg))
---> client side <----
import socket
print("--------->CLIENT<----------------")
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
ip = "127.0.0.1"
port = 8080
s.connect((ip,port))
print("CLIENT1 IS CONNECTED TO THE SERVER")
while True:
#for receiving message
rec_msg = s.recv(1024)
rec_msg = rec_msg
print("SERVER - ", rec_msg," type = ", type(rec_msg))
#for sending message
temp_msg = input("CLIENT - ")
message = int(temp_msg)
s.send(message)
----> output of client side code after sending the initial message through server.py<------
--------->CLIENT<----------------
CLIENT1 IS CONNECTED TO THE SERVER
SERVER - b'' type = <class 'bytes'>
CLIENT -

Answer 1

I found a very simple method to send integer by converting them to string before sending, and then change back to to the integer format after receiving them through a socket.
You can do this by following the below method.
#server side:
num=123
# convert num to str, then encode to utf8 byte
tcpsocket.send(str(num).encode('utf8'))
#client side
data = tcpsocket.recv(1024)
# decode to unicode string
strings = data.decode('utf8')
#get the num
num = int(strings)