closing a server socket

[Peter Hansen]

simon place wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> > None of this should be necessary!
> >
> > What problems were you having that led you to try the above abomination in
> > your effort to resolve them?
> 
> The problem is i couldn't find anyway, in 'normal' code, to close a server
> socket, ie unblock an accept.
> 
> tried to use non-blocking mode, but not allowed on a server socket, which
> makes sense, but isn't documented.

It does work, which is why it isn't documented that it doesn't. <wink>

What did you try, that non-blocking server sockets don't work for you?

(I assume you are talking about using select.select() to detect when the
listening socket has a client connection waiting to be accepted.)

-Peter