Comment 5 for bug 164288

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

See http://bugs.python.org/issue2550 -- SO_REUSEADDR has a different meaning on Windows. It should be defined everywhere though.

Note that sockets will still be in close_wait - this is the specified behaviour and quite normal - but it won't prevent starting a new server.

Not sure what Robert means by http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pillock