Hi, The current python bindings for libshout have only partial support for nonblocking mode. There is no "get_connected" function and as a result the nonblocking open function does not work. The attached patch fixes this. The file example.py was modified to work in nonblocking mode. Regards, Michel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: patch.p Type: text/x-pascal Size: 2999 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/attachments/20080816/8a9b8b7b/attachment.p