Python 2.7.11 Socket library missing objects?

Question

Hello I'm trying to call a specific object from the socket library, more specifically socket.send and socket.recv. The IDE i'm using is pycharm and its telling me that it cannot find the the reference in the socket library. Here is a snippet of my code:

def http(ip,port): 
    try:
        socket.setdefaulttimeout(2)
        a = socket.socket()
        a.connect((ip,port))
        socket.send("GET HTTP/1.1 \r\n")
        giveMeUrInfoz = socket.recv(1024)
        print "[+]" + "Huzzah! " + str(giveMeUrInfoz)
        print "**********************************************************"
        return giveMeUrInfoz
    except Exception, e:
        print "[-] Unable to grab info" + str(e)
        print "**********************************************************"
        return str(e)

The pycharm IDE is telling me that it does not recognize the send and recv objects. I know for a fact that the socket.send and socket.recv are valid objects part of the socket library per the following link to python docs :https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html.

My question is, why is this not working? I should also mention the purpose of this function in my script is to obtain the web server banner information via get request. I am passing port 80 into the function as well as a valid IP address.

might want to take a look at [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36250353/importing-installed-package-from-script-raises-attributeerror-module-has-no-at) — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, May 20 '16 at 21:32
@CoryShay post that as an answer, `send` and `recv` are methods on the socket object not functions in the module, they are both under the section ["Socket Objects"](https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket-objects) in the documentation. — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, May 20 '16 at 21:39

Cory Shay · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-20T21:45:56.907

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Instead of socket.send("GET HTTP/1.1 \r\n") and socket.recv(1024) you will want to use the send and recv command for an instantiated Socket Object.

So in your case it would be a.send("GET HTTP/1.1 \r\n") or a.recv(1024).

edited May 20 '16 at 21:45

answered May 20 '16 at 21:42

Cory Shay

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Thanks for the catch. – 0xa13x May 20 '16 at 21:43
@0xa13x consider [accepting this answer](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work) if it solved your problem :) – Tadhg McDonald-Jensen May 20 '16 at 21:47

Python 2.7.11 Socket library missing objects?

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