[cse491] Index Error

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:21:08PM -0400, Brett Thomas Mcmillen wrote:
-> I keep getting this error and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've 
-> tried running python on both cmd line and idle but I can't handle any of my 
-> problems because of this damn error 
-> 
-> sock.bind(('', int(sys.argv[1])))
-> IndexError: list index out of range 
-> 
-> Any help would be sweet :P 

Hi, Brett,

try breaking the line down:

port = sys.argv[1]
port = int(port)
bind_tuple = ('', port)
sock.bind(bind_tuple)

and then see at what line you get the error message.

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu