import websocket, thread
import simplejson as json

SOCKET_IO_HOST = "127.0.0.1"
SOCKET_IO_PORT = 8080
socket_io_url = 'http://' + SOCKET_IO_HOST + ':' + str(SOCKET_IO_PORT) + '/socket.io/websocket'
def encode_for_socketio(message):
    """
    Encode 'message' string or dictionary to be able
    to be transported via a Python WebSocket client to
    a Socket.IO server (which is capable of receiving
    WebSocket communications). This method taken from
    gevent-socketio.
    """
    MSG_FRAME = "~m~"
    HEARTBEAT_FRAME = "~h~"
    JSON_FRAME = "~j~"

    if isinstance(message, basestring):
            encoded_msg = message
    elif isinstance(message, (object, dict)):
            return encode_for_socketio(JSON_FRAME + json.dumps(message))
    else:
            raise ValueError("Can't encode message.")

    return MSG_FRAME + str(len(encoded_msg)) + MSG_FRAME + encoded_msg
ws = None

def sendMsg(m=''):
    global ws
    if ws == None:
        ws = websocket.create_connection(socket_io_url)
    ws.send(encode_for_socketio({'message':m}))