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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/socket.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 1cc0f04..75d86b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -748,7 +748,9 @@ timeout error of its own regardless of any Python socket timeout setting. Shut down one or both halves of the connection. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RD`, further receives are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_WR`, further sends are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RDWR`, further sends and receives are - disallowed. + disallowed. Depending on the platform, shutting down one half of the connection + can also close the opposite half (e.g. on Mac OS X, ``shutdown(SHUT_WR)`` does + not allow further reads on the other end of the connection). Note that there are no methods :meth:`read` or :meth:`write`; use :meth:`~socket.recv` and :meth:`~socket.send` without *flags* argument instead. |