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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"collections.get generated AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MSG_WAITALL' on Windows","articleBody":"When running the Python client on Windows in Python 2.7, a call to\n\ncoll = sess.collections.get(\"...\")\n\nyields the following error:\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"\u003cstdin\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\resource_manager\\collection_manager.py\", line 12, in get\n    result = query.one()\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\query.py\", line 132, in one\n    results = self.execute()\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\query.py\", line 118, in execute\n    with self.sess.pool.get_connection() as conn:\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\pool.py\", line 20, in get_connection\n    conn = Connection(self, self.account)\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\connection.py\", line 19, in **init**\n    self._connect()\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\connection.py\", line 67, in _connect\n    version_msg = self.recv()\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\connection.py\", line 37, in recv\n    msg = iRODSMessage.recv(self.socket)\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\irods\\message__init__.py\", line 23, in recv\n    rsp_header_size = sock.recv(4, socket.MSG_WAITALL)\nAttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MSG_WAITALL' \n\nPerhaps this is a limitation of the socket object on Windows?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/donpellegrino","@type":"Person","name":"donpellegrino"},"datePublished":"2015-06-18T18:55:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/10/python-irodsclient/issues/10"}