Hans, > Unfortunately, Windows is not a respectable OS. Unlike Unix, it allows two > processes to bind to the same port. The theory is that this somehow allows > the two processes to share their workload. One thing the OP can portably do, > is try to connect() to the port. If that succeeds, then a server program is > already running at that port, so he should exit.
Thank you for your tip - spot on! Best regards, Malcolm (OP for this thread) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
