Re: [Jython-dev] socket.bind() using port 0 is broken?

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

On 7/26/07, Alan Kennedy <jyt...@xh...> wrote:
> You will find the behaviour you expect if you actually use the socket,
> like so
>
> Jython 2.2rc3 on java1.4.2_13
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>  >>> import socket
>  >>> serv = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>  >>> serv.bind ( ('localhost', 0) )
>  >>> serv.listen()
>  >>> serv.getsockname()
> ('127.0.0.1', 1068)

Ok. This makes sense and should be fine in most cases. I actually
tried binding to port 0 as I wanted to see if that approach can be
used in test_socket.py (instead of using a static port like 50007). I
will follow up in that thread.