In message <2f830099-4264-47bc-98ee-31950412a...@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, cerr 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? The usual case this happens is you have a client connection open at the time, that was not properly terminated. Then the TCP stack goes through a holdoff period (2 minutes, I believe it is), to make absolutely sure all packets destined for the old connection have completely disappeared off the entire Internet, before it will let you open a socket on the same port again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
