[issue8576] test_support.find_unused_port can cause socket conflicts on Windows

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Any time you have any API that you want to test that requires a 
> pre-allocated port number, you're going to have intermittent failures.  
> Such APIs are broken and should be fixed where possible and avoided 
> otherwise.

You mean that socket.create_connection(), httplib (issue 3972) and ftplib should or should have used a different API to implement their "source_address" option?

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