Interesting socket behavior

2014-10-07 Thread Christian Calderon
I noticed that if I make a listening socket using SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_NONBLOCK, that the sockets I get after calling listener.accept() don't have the O_NONBLOCK flag set, but checking the result of gettimeout() on the same sockets gives me 0.0, which means they are non blocking. Why is this the case

joining thread hangs unexpectedly

2014-09-26 Thread Christian Calderon
I am working on a personal project that helps minecraft clients connect to minecraft servers using tor hidden services. I am handling the client connection in a separate thread, but when I try to join the threads they hang. The problem is in the file called hiddencraft.py, in the function main at t

Making every no-arg method a property?

2014-08-05 Thread Christian Calderon
I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning ruby. I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just realized right now that I can do something similar in python, if I make all methods wi