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Convert authentication portions of pyChat.py to use full SSL encryption instead of the inherently weak xor. Add preference interface to allow user to select SSL, xor, or nothing.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pyChat.py", line 1, in
from tkinter import *
ImportError: No module named tkinter

This error if you don't have tkinter installed. Maybe write a setup script or a try catch to handle this gracefully.

Refactor the primary code base into at least two separate files:
pyChat-ui.py to contain the Tkinter related code
pyChat-core.py to contain the networking and security related functions.

Further breakdown would be possible.

One of the problems in transitioning from python 3 to python 2 is unicode support.
In python 2, only unicode strings have the isnumeric function. Thus, I get the following exception when trying to input an ip address:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1473, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "pyChat.py", line 731, in <lambda>
    client_options_go(destination.get(), "9999", window))
  File "pyChat.py", line 272, in client_options_go
    if options_sanitation(port, dest):
  File "pyChat.py", line 286, in options_sanitation
    if not por.isnumeric():
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'isnumeric'

Possible fixes? It'd be tricky and annoying to alternate between isnumeric and isdigit, especially since isdigit doesn't do everything isnumeric does.

You also can't have u"unicode literals" in python 3.

Numerous parts of the code are currently coded for Python 3. It should finish being ported to Python 2.

Tests for the script.

Using curses/ncurses, add command line interface so that chat can be conducted entirely from within a terminal window.