I have a troublesome problem socket.error error: [Errno 10048]: Address already in use. Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/IP address/port) is normally permitted during automated tests using Selenium with Python. The problem is so interesting that it runs on one machine (Linux) works correctly, but on another machine (WindowsXP) generates this error.
I would add that the problem arose after the reinstallation of the system and set up all over again - with the previous configuration everything worked properly.
Is there maybe something I forgot? Has anyone come up with such a problem before?
Does anyone have an idea of ​​how to deal with this problem?
The current configuration / libraries:
python 2.7, numpy, selenium.py
There are several possibilities. If none of your tests can listen on some port (you don't say what port) then perhaps your Windows machine is running something on a port that you previously had open; this new service may have appeared during the reinstall. If, on the other hand, it's only a problem for some tests, or it's a little sporadic, then it may be either a programming issue (forgetting to close a socket in an early test which interferes with a later one) or a timing issue  (the earlier test's socket isn't quite through closing before the new one tries to open up). Obviously there are different ways to address each of these problems, but I don't think we can help more than this without more details.
problem: Socket error [Address already in use] in python/selenium