In article <mailman.1937.1383332149.18130.python-l...@python.org>, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 21:12, Nobody wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:16:23 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > > > > > I want to do getpeername() on stdin. I know I can do this by wrapping a > > > socket object around stdin, with > > > > > > s = socket.fromfd(sys.stdin.fileno(), family, type) > > > > > > but that requires that I know what the family and type are. What I want > > > to do is discover the family and type by looking at what getpeername() > > > and/or getsockname() return. Can this be done with the standard library? > > > > I think that you'd need to use ctypes to access the underlying > > getpeername() function from libc. > > If it's possible to get this information with only the fd, then why does > socket.fromfd require them? Because socket.fromfd() is a very simplistic alternate way to create a socket object, which meets a common use case that happens not to be my use case. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
