Source code for shyft.dashboard.util.find_free_port

import socket
from contextlib import closing



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def find_free_port():
    """from SO https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365265/on-localhost-how-to-pick-a-free-port-number
    available port number for use
    """
    with closing(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)) as s:
        s.bind(('', 0))
        return s.getsockname()[1]