How do I check if Telnet session is open?

[Irmen de Jong]

Mudcat wrote:
> Let me narrow the focus a little since I've found out how this is
> usually done. I'm attempting to solve the problem using select. However
> I can't get the select function to block until something's available.
> Here is my code. I am running on windows.
[...]
>>>>w, r, e = select.select([], [sock, sock2], [] )

The select call waits until you can *write* to the sockets.
It should read:

w, r, e = select.select([sock, sock2], [], [] )

--Irmen