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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index ec8ff3d..0fee6d5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -575,14 +575,16 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets. .. index:: single: I/O control; buffering - Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. (File objects are - described in :ref:`bltin-file-objects`.) The 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). The optional + Return a :dfn:`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. + 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). + .. method:: socket.recv(bufsize[, flags]) |