Stupid Q: asyncore and disconnecting?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Stephen Hansen wrote:
> Okay, I am using asyncore to make a little server, and am wondering how to
> go about detecting a client disconnected?

implement the handle_close method:

    def handle_close(self):
        # do whatever's necessary
        self.close() # nuke the socket

(note that the default implementation prints a log message and closes
the socket for you, so you shouldn't really end up in handle_read more
than once...)

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