[Python-Dev] Getting socket information from socket objects

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Nov 14 13:14:01 EST 2003


> It appears that the easiest way to retrieve family/type/protocol
> fields from socket objects is this:

> def getsockinfo(sock):
>     s = `sock._sock`
>     sp = s[1:-1].split(",")[1:]
>     g = {}
>     d = {}
>     for i in sp:
>         exec i.strip() in g, d
>     return (d["family"], d["type"], d["protocol"])

> Wouldn't it be nice to have accessors for these fields? My
> particular use-case is Windows-specific (IO completion port
> proactor), so winsock API provides this, but I'd rather avoid that
> crud.

Sounds like a good idea.  Upload your patches to SF!

> Also, exporting getsockaddrarg in socketmodule.c CAPI would be
> useful, although the only use I can think of is implementing
> Windows' ConnectEx (which I am doing)

I'm unclear on what you propose here; again, a working patch on SF
showing what you propose would help.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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