Why isnt my python socket server receiving the messages? - python-3.x

Question

so i am making a chatroom in python using sockets for practice. I have made the server code using threading so that i can have more clients. Ive also made the client code, and when i try to run two clients at once so that they message from one to another, they connect to server, but the server doesnt seem to be receiving the message sent from either of the clients.
SERVER CODE:
import select
from threading import *
server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
server.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
# takes the first argument from command prompt as IP address
IP_address = "127.0.0.1"
# takes second argument from command prompt as port number
Port = int("50204")
server.bind((IP_address, Port))
server.listen(1000)
list_of_clients = []
def clientthread(conn, addr):
# sends a message to the client whose user object is conn
conn.send("Welcome to this chatroom!")
while True:
try:
message = conn.recv(4096)
if message:
print("<" + addr[0] + "> " + message.decode("UTF-8"))
# Calls broadcast function to send message to all
message_to_send = "<" + addr[0] + "> " + message
broadcast(message_to_send.encode("UTF-8"), conn)
else:
remove(conn)
except:
continue
def broadcast(message, connection):
for clients in list_of_clients:
if clients != connection:
try:
clients.send(message)
except:
clients.close()
# if the link is broken, we remove the client
remove(clients)
def remove(connection):
if connection in list_of_clients:
list_of_clients.remove(connection)
while True:
conn, addr = server.accept()
list_of_clients.append(conn)
# prints the address of the user that just connected
print(addr[0] + " connected")
# creates and individual thread for every user
# that connects
Thread(target=clientthread, args=(conn, addr))
conn.close()
server.close()
CLIENT CODE:
import socket
import sys
import time
class client:
def __init__(self):
self.server_ip = "127.0.0.1"
self.port = 50204
self.s = self.connect()
def connect(self):
try:
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
except socket.error:
print("Failed to create socket.")
sys.exit()
print("Socket created")
try:
s.connect((self.server_ip, self.port))
except socket.error:
print("Failed to connect to ip " + self.server_ip)
print("Connected to: " + str(s.getsockname()))
return s
def SocketQuery(self, Sock, cmd):
try:
try:
# Send cmd string
Sock.send(cmd)
print("Sent!")
time.sleep(1)
except socket.error:
# Send failed
print("Send failed!")
sys.exit()
reply = Sock.recv(4096)
return reply
except ConnectionResetError:
print("Server is down!")
def SocketClose(self, Sock):
# close the socket
Sock.close()
time.sleep(.300)
if __name__ == "__main__":
c = client()
c.connect()
print("connected")
while True:
inp = input(">>> ")
if inp == ":q":
break
reply = c.SocketQuery(c.s, inp.encode("UTF-8"))
if reply:
print(reply.decode("UTF-8"))
c.SocketClose(c.s)
So as i have already mentioned, they do connect, but dont send/receive messages.
i have checked the value in conn.recv(), and it is the same, also everything gets encoded to UTF-8 before sent, and then decoded back. I cant seem to find any other problem except that im running them all on localhost.
If anyone knows the answer to this, please tell me.
cheers!