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authorGiampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com>2010-09-08 22:44:12 (GMT)
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Fix issue 9794: adds context manager protocol to socket.socket so that socket.create_connection() can be used with the 'with' statement.
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(Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà; :issue:`8807`.)
+* :func:`socket.create_connection` now supports the context manager protocol
+ to unconditionally consume :exc:`socket.error` exceptions and to close the
+ socket when done.
+
+ (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodolà; :issue:`9794`.)
+
Multi-threading
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