[Pythonmac-SIG] Off-topic : /dev/tcp

[Philippe de Rochambeau]

The book "Linux shell scripting with Bash" says that you can open 
network connections with /dev/tcp as in

exec 3<> /dev/tcp/localhost/80

The author then gives an example in shell script of how to use /dev/tcp 
to connect to a webserver.

I just wanted to investigating this as an alternative to a Python + 
httplib + wxWindows script which I wrote.

Philippe


On 30 mars 04, at 18:20, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Mar 30, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:
>
>> I know this has nothing to do with MacPython, but does anyone know 
>> what the Darwin equivalent to Linux's /dev/tcp is ?
>
> How about a quick explanation of what you would like to do with it?  
> Chances are, there isn't some "thing" that is 1:1 with /dev/tcp in 
> Darwin anyways (I also don't know what /dev/tcp does off the top of my 
> head).
>
> -bob
>