# socketserver --- A framework for network servers — Asynchronous Mixins

> Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text To build asynchronous handlers, use the :class:`ThreadingMixIn` and :class:`ForkingMixIn` classes.

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```text
To build asynchronous handlers, use the :class:`ThreadingMixIn` and
:class:`ForkingMixIn` classes.

An example for the :class:`ThreadingMixIn` class::

   import socket
   import threading
   import socketserver

   class ThreadedTCPRequestHandler(socketserver.BaseRequestHandler):

       def handle(self):
           data = str(self.request.recv(1024), 'ascii')
           cur_thread = threading.current_thread()
           response = bytes("{}: {}".format(cur_thread.name, data), 'ascii')
           self.request.sendall(response)

   class ThreadedTCPServer(socketserver.ThreadingMixIn, socketserver.TCPServer):
       pass

   def client(ip, port, message):
       with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as sock:
           sock.connect((ip, port))
           sock.sendall(bytes(message, 'ascii'))
           response = str(sock.recv(1024), 'ascii')
           print("Received: {
```

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