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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-01-04 18:50:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-01-04 18:50:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 4adb288f4eaea3a21295c11a3ca49313d7da8cc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 84821f5b594c91134847979997663ce070cbfc57 /Doc/library/socket.rst | |
| parent | 6e40e27ecfe417ab4633c46b8ac99d30ebad6b36 (diff) | |
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Issue #7631: Fix undefined references to the "built-in file object", which
has ceased to be.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index ec8ff3d..0fee6d5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -575,14 +575,16 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets. .. index:: single: I/O control; buffering - Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. (File objects are - described in :ref:`bltin-file-objects`.) The file object references a - :cfunc:`dup`\ ped version of the socket file descriptor, so the file object - and socket object may be closed or garbage-collected independently. The - socket must be in blocking mode (it can not have a timeout). The optional + Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. The exact + returned type depends on the arguments given to :meth:`makefile`. These arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in :func:`open` function. + The returned file object references a :cfunc:`dup`\ ped version of the + socket file descriptor, so the file object and socket object may be + closed or garbage-collected independently. The socket must be in + blocking mode (it can not have a timeout). + .. method:: socket.recv(bufsize[, flags]) |