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

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Mar 30, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> sorry to have waisted your fellows' time for nothing. I just wanted to 
> learn yet another way to fetch data from the Web. Here's the code. It 
> is a lot more primitive than the equivalent python code, of course. It 
> works on macosx.
>
> PR

I'm just amazed to discover it really works!

I saw a section on /dev/tcp in the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:
	<http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-2.6.tar.bz2>

but, since I didn't SEE a '/dev/tcp' on my mac, I assumed it was an 
unsupported linux-ism.

But, as Cameron noted, it's no real device there -- it's just the shell 
using a device-like syntax
to do some magic.

However, now that I know that it actually works, I hope I never need to 
use it ever again!  ;-)

-- sdm