On 11 Dic, 19:09, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > For a purpose of testing I need a function which could tell me whether > it is possible to bind sockets on privileged ports or not. > I wrote down this simple function. It seems reasonably working to me > but I'd like to hear your opinion first. > > Thanks in advance. > > import socket, errno > > def bind_on_privileged_ports(port=21): > """Return True if it is possible to bind sockets on privileged > ports (< 1024).""" > try: > s = socket.socket() > s.bind(("", port)) > except socket.error, err: > if err[0] == errno.EACCES: > return False > s.close() > return True >
Just to clarify: I don't really care *which* port to use for binding the socket. I just need to try to bind a socket on a free random privileged port and return True if that has been possible. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list