Re: Newbie question: SOLVED (how to keep a socket listening), but still some questions

2005-06-24 Thread pwilkins
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:42:48 -0400, Jp Calderone wrote: > shutdown actually tears down the TCP connection; close releases the file > descriptor. > > If there is only one file descriptor referring to the TCP connection, > these are more or less the same. If there is more than one file > descript

Re: Newbie question: how to keep a socket listening?

2005-06-24 Thread pwilkins
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:21:28 -0700, ncf wrote: > I think your problem /may/ be in the following line of code: > sa.listen(1) > > I believe what's happening is that the listen() creates a decremental > counter of the number of connections to accept. Once it decrements to > 0, it won't accept any m

Re: Newbie question: how to keep a socket listening?

2005-06-24 Thread pwilkins
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:59:19 -0400, pwilkins wrote: > if data == 'q': >##disconnect client but keep waiting for connections > ... > client.close() Sorry - made a mistak

Newbie question: how to keep a socket listening?

2005-06-24 Thread pwilkins
First off I'm want to learn socket/network programming with python so a lot of what I ask is newbie related. I have written a test socket server that runs as a daemon. It listens on two sockets (say at ports 8000 and 9000) so that I can telnet over from another machine and get process info (ps ty