choosing random dynamic port number
Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper
emin.shopper at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 17:09:03 EST 2008
Dear Experts,
Is there a good way to choose/assign random dynamic port numbers in python?
I had in mind something like the following, but if multiple programs are
generating random port numbers, is there a way to check if a given port
number is already taken?
def GenerateDynamicPortNumber():
"Generate a random dynamic port number and return it."
# port numbers between 49152 to 65535 are dynamic port numbers
return 49152 + random.randrange(15000)
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