sockets: why doesn't my connect() block?

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:32:50 -0800 (PST), 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>According to "Python in a Nutshell(2nd)", p. 523:
>
>connect:   s.connect((host, port))
>...
>Blocks until the server accepts or rejects the connection attempt.
>
>However, my client program ends immediately after the call to
>connect()--even though my server program does not call accept():
>

Your platform's TCP implementation acknowledges the connection attempt
before your application calls accept().  This is fairly usual.

Jean-Paul