closing a socket

[William Annis]

Keith Murphy <kpmurphy at my-deja.com> writes:

> is closing sockets tricky? or am i doing something wrong...  shouldn't
> this work?

        There is one small thing you need, something every sockets
beginner misses at first.  I know I did...

> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)

        You need the set the 'reuse address' option:

        s.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

> however, i get the following error if i try and run it a second time:
> 
> socket.error: (125, 'Address already in use')

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