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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-08-08 23:24:50 (GMT)
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Issue #8524: Add a forget() method to socket objects, so as to put the
socket into the closed state without closing the underlying file descriptor.
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@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Contributed by Tarek Ziadé.)
+* Socket objects now have a :meth:`~socket.socket.forget()` method which
+ puts the socket into closed state without actually closing the underlying
+ file descriptor. The latter can then be reused for other purposes.
+
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`8524`.)
+
* The *sqlite3* module has some new features:
* XXX *enable_load_extension*