How to create an HTTP server in Python using the first available port?

Question

I want to avoid hard coding of the port number, as in the following:

httpd = make_server('', 8000, simple_app)

The reason I create the server this way is because I want to use it as the “core” for the Adobe AIR application so that it communicates using PyAMF. Since I run this on the client side, it is very possible that any port that I define is already in use. If there is a better way to do this and I am asking the wrong question, please let me know.

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>>> s = socket.socket()
>>> s.bind(("", 0))
>>> s.getsockname()
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