Try using another ascyncore example and see if that works for you. Maybe, first one without threading, like
<http://effbot.org/lib/asyncore.html#asyncore-example-basic-http-client> Asyncore worked fine on my application on Linux, but haven't tried that on MacOS. /Jean Brouwers JamesHoward wrote: > I have a problem with python's asyncore module throwing a bad file > descriptor error. The code might be difficult to copy here, but the > problem is essentially: > > The server wants to sever the connection of an open Asyncore socket. > Calling the socket.close() nor the socket.shutdown(2) calls seem to > work. The only way I can close the connection without creating the > error below is to have the client close the connection. > > I have the asyncore.loop() as the last line of a thread that is spawned > within the applications "mainframe.py" or gui thread. It doesn't seem > to me like this would make a difference, but I am unfamiliar with the > specifics of how the asyncore module works. > > Any thoughts people have would be greatly appreciated. If needed I may > be able to create a small version of the problem to post for people to > see. > > Thanks, > Jim Howard > > > Exception in thread Thread-1: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/threading.py", > line 460, in __bootstrap > self.run() > File > "/Users/jwhoward2/Documents/Projects/LJServer/LJDeviceServer/DeviceServer.py", > line 23, in run > asyncore.loop() > File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/asyncore.py", > line 191, in loop > poll_fun(timeout, map) > File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/asyncore.py", > line 121, in poll > r, w, e = select.select(r, w, e, timeout) > error: (9, 'Bad file descriptor') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list