Re: How to check client shutdown?

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On 2013-08-26, Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm currently learning about the socket module. My question is how
> can I detect if a connection is closed from the other side,

recv() will return an empty value of ''.

send() will eventually throw an exception.  [You may be able to call
send() once or twice after the connection has been closed without
getting the exception.] On Linux the exception is socket.error with
errno 32 (broken pipe).

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How to check client shutdown? Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6@gmail.com> - 2013-08-26 12:45 -0700
  Re: How to check client shutdown? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-27 06:09 +1000
    Re: How to check client shutdown? Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6@gmail.com> - 2013-08-27 10:44 -0700
      Re: How to check client shutdown? Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-08-27 15:17 -0500
      Re: How to check client shutdown? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-08-27 22:22 +0200
        Re: How to check client shutdown? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-28 06:40 +1000
          Re: How to check client shutdown? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-08-27 22:49 +0200
  Re: How to check client shutdown? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-26 21:20 +0100
  Re: How to check client shutdown? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-26 20:24 +0000

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