On 2010-09-15, cerr <ron.egg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get a socket error "[Errno 98] Address already in use" when i try to > open a socket that got closed before with close(). How come close() > doesn't close the socket properly? > My socket code : > > s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > s.bind((host, port)) > s.listen(1) > ... > ... > ... > while loop: > conn, addr = s.accept() > while conn and loop: > ... > ... > ... > conn.close()
At what line does the error occur? To what does the phrase "open a socket" refer? Have you tried the usual solution of setting the SO_REUSEADDR option on the socket before calling bind? http://www.google.com/search?q=socket+%27address+already+in+use%27 -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I own seven-eighths of at all the artists in downtown gmail.com Burbank! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
