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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-15 09:32:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-15 09:32:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 5aa0d1056047ffbca76e8c2a1d27dcefd3716aeb (patch) | |
| tree | 55d004f27a5e8121e1259c9a90c0853fb249203a /Doc/library | |
| parent | 872b79d02f97d7560d8a0c57d3665cdbefb98f5a (diff) | |
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Improve docs for socket.makefile() and SocketIO
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index c7d7ee3..e3c9723 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -622,10 +622,9 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets. 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). + Closing the file object won't close the socket unless there are no + remaining references to the socket. The socket must be in blocking mode + (it can not have a timeout). .. method:: socket.recv(bufsize[, flags]) |