socket.recv is empty but the result is showing in Maya

I am trying to get values for the rotation of joints in Maya into an external IDE. I have successfully been able to send commands and Maya responds properly but I am having trouble understanding how to receive the results back in the IDE.

I have tried using socket.recv and socket.recvmsg but got errors for both.

Code running in PyCharm

import socket
host = 'localhost'
port = 7720

code1 = ("servo_1 = [cmds.getAttr('joint2.rotateY')]\\n"
         "print servo_1")
try:
   # Connect to Maya Command Port
   maya = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
   maya.connect( (host,port) )
   # Send Command Through Socket --> Can Only Send MEL Commands
   message = 'python("{}")'.format(code1)
   print message
   maya.send(message)
   reply = maya.recv(4096)
   print reply
except:
   raise Exception, 'Connection Failed To : %s:%s' % (host, port)

finally:
   #Close Socket Connection
   maya.close()

Code in Maya to open the commandPort

import maya.cmds as cmds
if not cmds.commandPort(':7720', q=True, echoOutput=True, noreturn=False):
    cmds.commandPort(name=':7720')

The expected output is [43.74] as is shown in Maya but the actual output in PyCharm