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Attempting to reconnect socket fails

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terron

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Attempting to reconnect socket fails

Mar 27th, 2008

I'm trying to make something that once it is disconnected will automatically try to reconnect. I'll add some more features in later so it doesn't hammer the server but right now I just want to keep it simple and get that part working. The problem is that when I use sock.close I get an error message of

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Bad File Descriptor

and if I either use shutdown or just go straight to reconnecting I get:

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Transport endpoint is already connected

This is what I've got right now:

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#! /usr/bin/env python
import socket, string
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
def doconn():
    sock.connect(("localhost", 1234))
def dodiscon():
    sock.close()
    doconn()
 
doconn()
 
while (1):
    buffer = sock.recv(1024)
    if not buffer:
        dodiscon()
#! /usr/bin/env python
import socket, string
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
def doconn():
    sock.connect(("localhost", 1234))
def dodiscon():
    sock.close()
    doconn()

doconn()

while (1):
    buffer = sock.recv(1024)
    if not buffer:
        dodiscon()