setsockopt, SO_REUSEADDR question

[Constantinos A. Kotsokalis]

Hello people,
  pardon me if this has been answered before, couldn't find any trails.
  I have the following code:
  
addr = '127.0.0.1', 5050
srv = SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer(addr, handle_con)
srv.socket.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
srv.serve_forever()

  Everything is working as expected, except for the fact that the
  setsockopt does not do what i'd like it to. I understand it's
  highly possible I've passed wrong arguments but could not find
  any help on the right ones. What I want it to do is to be able to
  start a server on port 5050, even if another server was just shut
  down and there's still a closing listen socket there. Since it does
  not work, I have to wait about 30 sec between each run of my
  program.
  Any advice, please?

    Thank you,
	  Costas

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