listening socket doesnt answer

[Cliff Crawford]

* Alexander K <ak42 at altavista.com> menulis:
| 
| where do i best learn about the different address/protocol
| families, and how they decide the format for the .bind() method?

If you're on a *nix system, try "man socket" :)  Or look for a file
called socket.h, which is the C header file declaring the socket
functions.
Also the python library reference page for the socket modules says that
it supports AF_UNIX and AF_INET protocols, but apparently nothing else..


| when dealing with a inet/stream socket i pass a tuple to bind,
| right? like this .bind((hostname, port)) where hostname is a
| string and port an integer.
| but in the other cases?

With Unix domain sockets, you just pass the filename since they
don't have ports associated with them.  So something like
soc.bind('/tmp/blah') should work.


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