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I just do a for loop looping over all the clients and selecting only the one i want. Here's my function:

def sendMessageToClient(name, message):
	targetClient = None
	for oneClient in server.clients:
		if oneClient['id'] == name:
			targetClient = oneClient
			break
	if targetClient is not None:
		server.send_message(targetClient, message)

Hope it helps

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This is a bad design decision at the time - using a list instead of a dict.

The workaround is to loop through the clients and once you find your client, use the handler handler.send_text

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Maybe there should be a server.clients_dict or something (in addition to the existing, to keep compatibility)?

Yes, probably a clients_by_id with client ID as key. But not something I have the time currently to work on unfortunately

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I might pick this up. Shouldn't be too difficult.

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Maybe there should be a server.clients_dict or something (in addition to the existing, to keep compatibility)?

from python-websocket-server.

I just do a for loop looping over all the clients and selecting only the one i want. Here's my function:

def sendMessageToClient(name, message):
	targetClient = None
	for oneClient in server.clients:
		if oneClient['id'] == name:
			targetClient = oneClient
			break
	if targetClient is not None:
		server.send_message(targetClient, message)

Hope it helps

Thanks for that. It helped me to solve this problem.

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