portpicker
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Portpicker provides an API to find and return an available network port for an application to bind to. Ideally suited for use from unittests or for test harnesses that launch local servers.
It also contains an optional portserver that can be used to coordinate allocation of network ports on a single build/test farm host across all processes willing to use a port server aware port picker library such as this one.
FAQs
A library to choose unique available network ports.
We found that portpicker demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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