sparta will not load... again. everything else loads, just not sparta. did you find someone getting packages for a penny cheaper somewhere? you shut this game down with no notice. i don't have all day to mess around with you over this game. you have now officially annoyed me
elmerfud cf, I have edited the swearing out of your post as its in violation of forum rules
Whilst unannounced shut downs are frustrating they are sometimes unavoidable, that said I am not aware of any shut downs today, it may be an issue with the game not loading at your end
Last thing first - whether you need to send something to the server before closing the socket or not depends purely on your protocol. Given the simplistic nature of the presented client code, I'd guess that closing of the socket should be enough (and the server should treat unannounced disconnects anyway as one shouldn't consider network I/O as persistent).
Second, CTRL+D will cause the returned message from sys.stdin.readline() to return as empty so you can test against that.
