portend 1.0

TCP port monitoring utilities

portend

por·tend pôrˈtend/ verb

be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen.

Usage

Use portend to monitor TCP ports for bound or unbound states.

For example, to wait for a port to be occupied, timing out after 3 seconds:

portend.wait_for_occupied_port(‘www.google.com’, 80, timeout=3)

Or to wait for a port to be free, timing out after 5 seconds:

portend.wait_for_free_port(‘::1’, 80, timeout=5)

1.0

Initial release based on utilities in CherryPy 3.5.