How to check client shutdown?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-08-26, Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm currently learning about the socket module. My question is how
> can I detect if a connection is closed from the other side,

recv() will return an empty value of ''.

send() will eventually throw an exception.  [You may be able to call
send() once or twice after the connection has been closed without
getting the exception.] On Linux the exception is socket.error with
errno 32 (broken pipe).

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