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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-02-18 15:34:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-02-18 15:34:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 3fe64d0c5ca5f1dc9723b9ef436d033f390b19f0 (patch) | |
| tree | b9ed163be92fd25abc23550f9c052447b1a8a804 /Doc | |
| parent | c12fef9aa3282144dba83e0cd543bb510de6a745 (diff) | |
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Issue #16915: Clarify that mode parameter of socket.makefile() does not accept
the same values as open().
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/socket.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 4276478..a0b02c0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -1006,7 +1006,8 @@ to sockets. Return a :term:`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. + interpreted the same way as by the built-in :func:`open` function, except + the only supported *mode* values are ``'r'`` (default), ``'w'`` and ``'b'``. The socket must be in blocking mode; it can have a timeout, but the file object's internal buffer may end up in an inconsistent state if a timeout |