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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> | 2018-01-27 08:54:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-01-27 08:54:13 (GMT) |
| commit | d0e31b980f18101738d0ec518cb991a5fb73fe93 (patch) | |
| tree | a8b9a117d4eca90bc3dc421bcec44e44691d6a14 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 2f050c7e1b36bf641e7023f7b28b451454c6b98a (diff) | |
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bpo-32454: socket closefd (#5048)
Add close(fd) function to the socket module
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index db032ca..7edd4ba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -578,6 +578,14 @@ Other functions The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: +.. function:: close(fd) + + Close a socket file descriptor. This is like :func:`os.close`, but for + sockets. On some platforms (most noticeable Windows) :func:`os.close` + does not work for socket file descriptors. + + .. versionadded:: 3.7 + .. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port, family=0, type=0, proto=0, flags=0) Translate the *host*/*port* argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain |