> In Python, there's a certain amount of support. You can attempt to > bind to a port, and if you fail, try the next one in a sequence.
* The zero seems to be also an usable parameter here. Is the system configuration documentation unclear about the applied value range for the port allocation? Can it happen that special permissions would be needed for a setting? * How are the chances to improve programming interfaces around the module “socketserver”? > It's simple, it's straight-forward, and it doesn't cause problems. Would you like to reduce connection management difficulties because of an error message like “OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use”? Regards, Markus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list