On 2006-07-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > serverhost = 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' > serverport = 9520 > aeris_sockobj = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > aeris_sockobj.connect((serverhost,serverport)) > > while 1: > do this or that with socket, > send and receive info. > yadda yadda yadda > > works well, but sometimes the server drops the connection. so, > what i need is something that will let me know if the > connection is still ok, if not will reconnect.
If the server has closed the connection, then a recv() on the socket will return an empty string "", and a send() on the socket will raise an exception. > what i thought, since it only lets you connect on a certain > port one at a time, that i could use a try-except to connect > every time, if it could not connect (because it already is) > then i would just continue on. But if it is not connected, it > would reconnect. that is what brings me here. Seems like it > would work, but is there a better way? I don't see why the normal send() and recv() semantics aren't sufficient. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm an East Side at TYPE... visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list