verifying type of socket object?

[Thomas Jensen]

Peter Wang <pzw1 at cor-no-spam-nell.edu> wrote in
news:+YrhO+rceV33qbXjWckIp8NUkWP4 at 4ax.com: 

> in my code, i'd like to verify that i get passed a socket object.
> however, i'm having some trouble figuring out what exactly
> represents the "socket type".  the main problem is that
> socket.socket() doesn't return instances of socket.SocketType:

It does here, se below

>>>> x = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>>> socket.SocketType <type 'socket'> isinstance(x,
>>>> socket.SocketType) 0 x <socket._socketobject instance at
>>>> 011232A4> isinstance(x, socket._socketobject) 1 

Whats your system and Python version?
(Mine is Python 2.1.1 on FreeBSD4.4-RELEASE)
Here's what I got:

>>> x = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>> socket.SocketType
<type 'socket'>
>>> isinstance(x, socket.SocketType)
1
>>> x
<socket object, fd=8, family=2, type=1, protocol=0>
>>> isinstance(x, socket._socketobject)
0

And adding:

>>> type(x) == socket.SocketType
1

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Best Regards
Thomas Jensen