On 25 Lug, 16:37, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't really a Python question, it's a Berkeley Socket API question. > You don't say, but I assume you're talking about a TCP (i.e. SOCKSTREAM) > connection?
Yes. > The answer is you can use the select() system call to detect "exceptional > conditions" on a socket. Python's select module provides this > functionality, but to understand how to use it, you need to study the > underlying API. > > On the other hand, socket.read() returning 0 works too. What do you find > "poor" about that? What do you want to know about the connection being > closed that you don't find out by getting 0 back from read()? 'poor' because it's 'tricky', since that send/write() and recv/read() should be used for other tasks... As far as I can tell this works on Linux and Windows, but I don't know on other platforms. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list