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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/socket.rst14
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/weakref.rst4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index e6ad578..292ea2d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -565,17 +565,17 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets.
is system-dependent (usually 5).
-.. method:: socket.makefile([mode[, bufsize]])
+.. method:: socket.makefile(mode='r', buffering=None, *, encoding=None, newline=None)
.. 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
- *mode* and *bufsize* arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in
- :func:`file` function.
+ 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
+ arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in :func:`open`
+ function.
.. method:: socket.recv(bufsize[, flags])
diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
index 9aaa58a..a667479 100644
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ support weak references but can add support through subclassing::
obj = Dict(red=1, green=2, blue=3) # this object is weak referenceable
+Other built-in types such as :class:`tuple` and :class:`int` do not support
+weak references even when subclassed (those types implemented as a
+:ctype:`PyVarObject`).
+
Extension types can easily be made to support weak references; see
:ref:`weakref-support`.