socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use

[cerr]

On Sep 15, 11:58 am, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2010-09-15, cerr <ron.egg... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I get a socket error "[Errno 98] Address already in use" when i try to
> > open a socket that got closed before with close(). How come close()
> > doesn't close the socket properly?
> > My socket code :
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> >   s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> >   s.bind((host, port))
> >   s.listen(1)
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> >   while loop:
> >     conn, addr = s.accept()
> >     while conn and loop:
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> >      conn.close()
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> At what line does the error occur?

The whole message I get looks like:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./checkGPIO.py", line 148, in <module>
    main()
  File "./checkGPIO.py", line 75, in main
    s.bind((host, port))
  File "<string>", line 1, in bind
socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use

Where line 75 contains following:
s.bind((host, port))
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> To what does the phrase "open a socket" refer?

create a listening socket...?

> Have you tried the usual solution of setting the SO_REUSEADDR option
> on the socket before calling bind?

yep, that did it for me, thanks a lot! :)

> http://www.google.com/search?q=socket+%27address+already+in+use%27

Google's your friend if you can read ;)

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