how to get any available port

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:19:37PM -0400, Mohammed Smadi wrote:
> what else would you do?  I am using examples from the web and they all 
> bind to a port at the localhost before connecting to the remote host.
[...]

the web must be stupider than I thought.

Here's how Python's own ftplib connects to an ftp server (dedented for clarity):
    try:
	self.sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
	self.sock.connect(sa)
    except socket.error, msg:
	...

there's no need to call bind() before connect.

Jeff
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