Re: [Jython-dev] Test SocketServer

[Raghuram D. <dra...@gm...>]

On 8/13/07, bob...@ai... <bob...@ai...> wrote:

>  Does anyone see a problem with replacing this with picking the starting
> port number using a random number between  10001 and 20000 and increasing by
> one?  Is there an advantage to using the pid?  That would help make this
> test more platform independent.  I don't think the Python version runs on
> all Platforms currently.

If a random port must be used, you can use the following function to find one.

   def find_free_tcp_port():
       s = socket.socket()
       s.bind(("localhost", 0))
       s.listen(1)
       port = s.getsockname()[1]
       s.close()
       # There is a window here when the port can be taken by some one else.
       return port