Can't get UDP example to work

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:40:39 -0700, Paul Barry wrote:

> On Jul 26, 12:53 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <148abf0f-c9e4-4156-8f16-e4e5615d3... at s6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
>>  Paul Barry <pauljbar... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > host = '127.0.0.1'           # Bind to all interfaces
>>
>> This threw me off the track for a little while.  The comment is wrong!
>> You're not binding to all interfaces, you're binding specifically to
>> the loopback interface.  For what you're doing, it's fine, but the
>> comment is still wrong.
> 
> You are right.  The example in the book actually has
> 
> host = ''
> 
> So the comment is correct.  In trying to debug what was going on, I put
> 127.0.0.1 to see if that had something to do with it, which it didn't.

Now I have to quote Aahz's email sig:

"At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just 
refer to comments in code as 'lies'. "
--Michael Foord paraphrases Christian Muirhead on python-dev, 2009-03-22


> But why not use
> 
>     print buf[0]
> 
> instead of
> 
>     sys.stdin.write(buf[0])
> 
> that much, I don't know.

print adds a trailing newline to the output, so the two lines aren't 
quite equivalent.



-- 
Steven