On Mar 11, 2:19 am, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Mar 10, 9:40 am, Marc Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I have a linux box with multiple ip addresses. I want to make my > >> > python client connect from one of the ip addresses. Here is my code, > >> > no matter what valid information I put in the bind it always comes > >> > from the default ip address on the server. Am I doing something wrong? > >... > > >help string: > >Bind the socket to a local address. For IP sockets, the address is a > >pair (host, port); the host must refer to the local host. > > >docs: > >Bind the socket to address. > > >Wikipedia: > >Before a socket may accept incoming connections, it must be bound. > > >PHP.net: > >Binds the name given in address to the socket described by socket . > >This has to be done before a connection is be established using > >socket_connect() or socket_listen(). > >This function must be used on the socket before socket_connect(). > > That's all true. So what was your point? How does this help the original > poster?
Confidence-- a second opinion of what the docs say. Then, something of a criticism of the docs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
