how to get any available port

[Fredrik Lundh]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> IIRC, you just call bind() with a port number of zero, and then
> use some method-or-other on the bound socket to find out what
> port it's bound to.

>>> s = socket.socket()
>>> s.bind(("", 0))
>>> s.getsockaddr()
("0.0.0.0", 4711)

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