How can I reconnect a socket after a broken pipe?

Question

The program connects to a server, and when the connection is closed by the server, if I try to reconnect it says: socket.error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
If I close the socket in the client and then i try to reconnect, it says: socket.error: [Errno 106] Transport endpoint is already connected.

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Is there a way to reconnect it after a broken pipe without creating a new socket?

import socket
host = '127.0.0.1'
port = 1337
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
def loop():
    try:
        while 1:
            print s.recv(512)
    except socket.error:
        #s.close()?
        connect()
def connect():
    s.connect((host, port))
    loop()
connect()

Answer 1

Assuming this is a connection oriented socket:

No. You have to close the old one and create a new socket,