def GetUniverseFromServer(self): conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.serverAddress, port=self.port) conn.request("GET", "/universeState/" + str(self.t)) response = conn.getresponse() if response.status != 200: print response.status print response.reason print response.read() raise "out of sync?" jsonString = response.read() self.universe = Universe.FromJson(jsonString)