Peter Hansen wrote: > Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: >> How can I determine the type of a socket (TCP or UDP) object? > > In what context? Do you have some code that gets passed a socket object > but it could have been created with either SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM? > And you want a way of determining by looking just at the object passed > in which type it is? (I could make other guesses, but let's start with > that... ;-) ) > > How about this: > > >>> import socket > >>> t = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > >>> u = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) > >>> dir(t) > ['__class__', .... '_sock', 'accept', 'bind', 'close' > , 'connect', 'connect_ex', 'dup', 'fileno', 'getpeername', > ...'setblocking', 'setsockopt', 'settimeout', 'shutdown'] > > Let's see... what looks good here? > > >>> u._sock > <socket object, fd=1916, family=2, type=2, protocol=0> > >>> t._sock > <socket object, fd=1912, family=2, type=1, protocol=0> > > Maybe that type field?
Heh. The type field isn't publicly accessible (yet). There is a patch on SF for this, in the meanwhile you'll have to parse the __repr__ output. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
