Socket Blocking problem

[Erik Max Francis]

sree wrote:

> I am writing a small socket program in python. Here there are two
> progs. One
> sits on system A and accepts connections, does something with the data
> that
> came in. Othe sits on system B and sends commands to system A. Problem
> is I
> want to be able to read if system A is busy or free from system B.
> Hence I
> tried setblocking(0) but then it fails to start with error as below on
> system A.

Have you tried using select (select.select in Python)?

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