how to know if socket is still connected

[nephish at xit.net]

cool enough, thanks !

-sk


Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-07-16, nephish at xit.net <nephish at xit.net> wrote:
>
> >> If the server has closed the connection, then a recv() on the
> >> socket will return an empty string "", and a send() on the
> >> socket will raise an exception.
>
> > like this ?
> > databack = aeris_sockobj.recv(2048)
> >  if databack:
> >             view_msg = 'caught request acknowlage %s bytes \n' %
> > len(databack)
> > else:
> >             view_msg = 'fail to recieve data from aeris server\n'
> >
> > then put the reconnect in the else: block ?
>
> Yes, if the problem is that the host closes the connection,
> that should work.  Modulo the broken indentation and
> line-wrapping. ;)
>
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