From 128552180e77a65c02d911fc5522587eb2b94da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roy Hyunjin Han <starsareblueandfaraway@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:03:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Force port to be an integer

---
 .gitignore           | 8 ++++++++
 socketIO/__init__.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15e22ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+*~
+*.egg-info
+*.pyc
+*.swo
+*.swp
+.coverage
+build
+dist
diff --git a/socketIO/__init__.py b/socketIO/__init__.py
index 07fd24c..1299268 100644
--- a/socketIO/__init__.py
+++ b/socketIO/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class SocketIO(object):
 
     def __init__(self, host, port):
         self.host = host
-        self.port = port
+        self.port = int(port)
         self.__do_handshake()
         self.__connect()
         self.heartbeatThread = RhythmicThread(self.heartbeatTimeout - 2, self.__send_heartbeat)