Oh. That makes sense. I think that's how the native socket call is. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 30, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Rutger ter Borg wrote:

Mathew Benson wrote:

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I know how to do this with Windows sockets, but how do I bind a UDP listen socket to the first available port? I want to send a packet from client to the server to subscribe to data and tell the server what port to send the subscribed data to. I don't care what port the client listens to. If I hard code it, I can only run a single client on a PC. I want to bind to the first available one so I can run as many clients on the same PC as I want.

AFAIK, just bind to port 0 and you will get assigned a random port.

Cheers,

Rutger

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Mathew Benson wrote:

How do I read out what port was assigned?

By using socket.local_endpoint.port() Cheers, Rutger