How to free a port that has been used by a python server?

[rushing at sPaM.nightmare.com]

In article <etdg0qvtkel.fsf at w20-575-109.mit.edu>, Alex
<cut_me_out at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there some way to free up port 1729 when proxy gets destroyed?  
> 
> I'm running RedHat Linux, but I have also seen this problem with
> Solaris. 

If you wait a couple of minutes, the port will be freed.

If you don't like waiting, try something like this (from asyncore.py):

        def set_reuse_addr (self):
                # try to re-use a server port if possible
                try:
                        self.socket.setsockopt (
                                socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR,
                                self.socket.getsockopt (socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR) | 1
                                )
                except:
                        pass

-Sam