I fail at python sockets, hard

I'm trying to make something that once it is disconnected will automatically try to reconnect.  I'll add some more features in later so it doesn't hammer the server but right now I just want to keep it simple and get that part working.  The problem is that when I use sock.close I get an error message of
Bad File Descriptor
and if I either use shutdown or just go straight to reconnecting I get:
Transport endpoint is already connected

This is what I've got right now:

#! /usr/bin/env python
import socket, string
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
def doconn():
    sock.connect(("localhost", 1234))
def dodiscon():
    sock.close()
    doconn()

doconn()

while (1):
    buffer = sock.recv(1024)
    if not buffer:
        dodiscon()


What am I doing wrong?

I crossposted this to 10 different forums and eventually got an answer on IRC.  Close doesn't just disconnect the socket, it completely fucking wipes it from the face of the planet.  So I just had to create a new one with the same name and it was fixed.