Error on Python

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Feb 9 23:05:34 EST 2008


Tim Roberts wrote:
> maehhheeyy <maehhheeyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, right now I'm using Python and Multicast. I have the code for
>> Multicast receiver on Python but I keep getting this error;
>>
>> File "<string>", line 1, in bind
>> error: (10049, "Can't assign requested address")
>>
>> The error is coming from this line;
>> sock.bind ((MCAST_ADDR, MCAST_PORT))
>>
>> Can anyone please help me solve this problem?
> 
> Where did you get the multicast module?  Are you trying to do TCP
> multicast?  What is the address you are trying to use?

TCP multicast? That doesn't make sense, there can only be two endpoints 
to a TCP connection. But *you* know that.

Couldn't the port just be in use?

regards
  Steve
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