Checking if port is in use.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-03-19, Alex Polite <m4 at polite.se> wrote:
>
> If I try to bind a socket to a port that's already in use I get this
> error
>
> "error socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use')"
>
> Is there anyway to check in advance if a port i already taken?

Yes.  Try to bind to the port.  If you get teh "Address already
in use" error, then it's already taken.

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