[Twisted-Python] listenTCP(), tcp.Port()

[Matthew Glubb]

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Hi All,

I want to create a simple server that listens for data but I do not  
want to specify the port, I want the port to be automatically  
selected based on the currently available ports on the system. Is  
there any way to do this using Twisted?

Using PHP it is a simple matter of:

// Create a socket
$sock = @socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);

// Get the port number used
@socket_getsockname($sock, $ip, $port);

Where $ip and $port are passed by reference and result in the values  
for the socket's ip address and port.

Looking at tcp.Port(), it doesn't seem like there is any provision  
for dynamically selecting an available port. Or am I missing something?

Regards,

Matt



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