In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, billiejoex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there. > I'm setting up test suite for a project of mine. > >From test suite, acting as a client, I'd like to know, in certain > situations, if the socket is closed on the other end or not. > I noticed that I can "detect" such state if a call to socket.read() > returns 0 but it seems a little poor to me. :-\ > Is there a reliable way to test such socket 'state'? This isn't really a Python question, it's a Berkeley Socket API question. You don't say, but I assume you're talking about a TCP (i.e. SOCKSTREAM) connection? The answer is you can use the select() system call to detect "exceptional conditions" on a socket. Python's select module provides this functionality, but to understand how to use it, you need to study the underlying API. On the other hand, socket.read() returning 0 works too. What do you find "poor" about that? What do you want to know about the connection being closed that you don't find out by getting 0 back from read()? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
