File based sockets don't work on windows.
Opening up ports for this will be foiled by personal firewalls on some windows machines. I think a mutex is the way to do this on windows. Here's a recepie that I have not tried: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474070
If you make a xplatform solution... please add it to the cookbook! http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CookBook
On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:48, Bob Ippolito wrote: > If I really had to do something like this, I'd do it with TCP on > 127.0.0.1 plus a marker file in a user-specific directory that said > which port to look for (which is determined at runtime by asking for > port 0).
Or just a file-based socket? Do they work on Windows?
Richard