I am trying to store a message received from a socket into a variable for later use.

For example, I want to store the second message sent and save it in a variable to use later.

I’ve tried everything, but nothing works, and I keep getting errors.

Heres everything i got sofar:

import socket
import threading

# Constants
HEADER = 1024
PORT = 1002
SERVER = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
FORMAT = 'utf-8'
DISCONNECT_MESSAGE = '!DISCONNECT'

# List to store messages
messages = []

# Create and bind the server
server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)  # AF_INET = IP, SOCK_STREAM = TCP
server.bind((SERVER, PORT))

def handle_client(client_socket, client_address):
    """Handle communication with a single client."""
    print(f"[NEW CONNECTION] {client_address} connected.")

    connected = True
    while connected:
        try:
            # Receive the message length
            msg_length = client_socket.recv(HEADER).decode(FORMAT)
            if msg_length:
                msg_length = int(msg_length)
                msg = client_socket.recv(msg_length).decode(FORMAT)
                
                # Log and store the message
                print(f"[{client_address}] {msg}")
                messages.append((client_address, msg))  # Add to the list
                print(messages[0])
                
                # Disconnect if the message is the DISCONNECT_MESSAGE
                if msg == DISCONNECT_MESSAGE:
                    connected = False
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"[ERROR] {e}")
            break

    client_socket.close()

def start():
    """Start the server and listen for connections."""
    server.listen()
    print(f"[LISTENING] Server is listening on {SERVER}")
    while True:
        client_socket, client_address = server.accept()
        thread = threading.Thread(target=handle_client, args=(client_socket, client_address))
        thread.start()
        print(f"[ACTIVE CONNECTIONS] {threading.active_count() - 1}")

print("[STARTING] Server is starting...")
start()