#! /usr/bin/python

import asynchat,asyncore,socket


class fake_asynchat(asynchat.async_chat):
    def __init__(self, host, port):
        asynchat.async_chat.__init__(self)
        self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        self.set_terminator('\r\n') #not bytes :-(
        self.data='' #not bytes :-(
        self.remote=(host,port)
        self.connect(self.remote)

    def handle_connect(self):
        self.push('A unicode string\r\n'
                  'That is not a byte string.\r\n') #not bytes :-(

    def get_data(self):
        r=self.data
        self.data='' #not bytes
        return r

    def collect_incoming_data(self, data):
        self.data += data

    def found_terminator(self):
        data=self.get_data()
        self.push(data)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fake_asynchat('127.0.0.1',8000)
    asyncore.loop()