Sockets...

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.989423353.4397.python-list at python.org>, Vincent A. Primavera wrote:

>	I have been experimenting with a variant of the program listed below from 
>the Python Library Reference...  I'm getting the error below very frequently. 
>How can I prevent this from happening?  And when it does happen is there a 
>way that I can 'manually' free up the 'socket'?

>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "./server.py", line 37, in ?
>    auth()
>  File "./server.py", line 17, in auth
>    sck.bind((host, port))
>socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use')

A particular port can't be reused for X seconds after it's
closed (for security reasons).  X varies from stack to stack.
If you want to be able to re-use it right away, set the
SO_REUSEADDR option:

s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,1)
s.bind(host,port)
s.listen(1)

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