python UDPServer

[David Fisher]

>That is, the script comes to a screeching halt
>when, in the course of performing the
>initialization for a UDPServer, it defaults to the
>initialization behaviour (for the most part) of a
>TCPServer, which does a listen().  This is a bad
>thing(tm) for a UDP socket.


You're right.  UDPServer should override server_activate().  And in version
1.5.2 is does.
Like this from Lib/SocketServer.py:

class UDPServer(TCPServer):

    """UDP server class."""

    socket_type = socket.SOCK_DGRAM

    max_packet_size = 8192

    def get_request(self):
        data, client_addr = self.socket.recvfrom(self.max_packet_size)
        return (data, self.socket), client_addr

    def server_activate(self):
        # No need to call listen() for UDP.
        pass

Your code runs fine on my win98/python1.5.2, except that the method is
called serve_forever() not server_forever().  You can edit the UDPServer
class in Lib/SocketServer.py to the above.  or upgrade to 1.5.2.  On Linux
the file is probably in /usr/lib/Python1.5.
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