alexa skill - send strings to listening tcp port

Need help refining an alexa skill and lambda python script to communiate with an 8266 esp01 board. The board currently has firmware to accept tcp connections and pass through the data. Would prefer to keep at this. Deliverable is providing a skill to me where i can issue a few custom commands along with a lambda python script that will open a tcp port to a server and send a string depending on the command issued to alexa. I will implement, customize as needed. I am trying to use the code here - [login to view URL] am close but it wants to communiate to a web server on an 8266 not send tcp packets so is failing at that point.