Python ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

Question

Ive seen similar questions but they I couldn't fix this error. Me and my friend are making a chat program but we keep getting the error ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused We are on different networks by the way. Here is my code for the server

import socket

def socket_create():
try:

    global host
    global port
    global s
    host = ''
    port = 9999
    s = socket.socket()

except socket.error as msg:
    print("Socket creation error" + str(msg))

#Wait for client, Connect socket and port
def socket_bind():
try:
    global host
    global port
    global s
    print("Binding socket to port: " + str(port)) 
    s.bind((host, port))
    s.listen(5)
except socket.error as msg:
    print("Socket binding error" + str(msg) + "\n" + "Retrying...")
    socket_bind

#Accept connections (Establishes connection with client) socket has to       be listining
def socket_accept():
   conn, address = s.accept()
   print("Connection is established |" + " IP:" + str(address[0]) + "|    port:" + str(address[1]))
chat_send(conn)


def chat_send(conn):
 while True:
    chat =input()
    if len(str.encode(chat)) > 0:
        conn.send(str.encode(chat))
        client_response = str(conn.recv(1024), "utf-8")
    print(client_response)
def main():
socket_create()
socket_bind()
socket_accept()

main()

And my client code

import socket


#connects to server
s = socket.socket()
host = '127.0.0.1'
port = 9999
s.connect((host, port))

#gets chat
while True:
    data = s.recv(1024)
    print (data[:].decode("utf-8")) 
    chat = input()
    s.send(str.encode(chat))

Answer 1

This may not answer your original question, but I encountered this error and it was simply that I had not starting the server process first to listen to localhost (127.0.0.1) on the port I chose to test on. In order for the client to connect to localhost, a server must be listening on localhost.