How do I reconnect a disconnected socket?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-03-28, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:

>> while (1):
>>      buffer = sock.recv(1024)
>>      if not buffer:
>>          dodiscon()
>>   
>
> sock.recv(1024) can return zero bytes of data indicating that no data 
> arrived yet.

No, it can't.

> It does not mean that you have been disconnected.

Yes, that is exactly what it means.

>From the recv() man page:

RETURN VALUE
       These  calls  return  the  number  of bytes received, or -1 if an error
       occurred.  The return value will be 0 when the peer  has performed  an
       orderly shutdown.

-- 
Grant