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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:21:09 +1000
Subject: Re: sockets: bind to external interface
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> wr=
ote:
> Hmmm. =A0socket.INADDR_ANY is an integer and bind insists on a string
> for the hostname (Python 2.6). =A0Is there any use for the integer
> constant? =A0"0.0.0.0" does exactly what I wanted though. =A0Thanks again=
.

Apologies - I've done most of my sockets programming in C, where the
integer constant is applicable. 0.0.0.0 means the exact same thing.

Chris Angelico