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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/socket.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst | 1 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 85eaabf..9a69ad4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -830,6 +830,19 @@ to sockets. Connect to a remote socket at *address*. (The format of *address* depends on the address family --- see above.) + If the connection is interrupted by a signal, the method waits until the + connection completes, or raise a :exc:`socket.timeout` on timeout, if the + signal handler doesn't raise an exception and the socket is blocking or has + a timeout. For non-blocking sockets, the method raises an + :exc:`InterruptedError` exception if the connection is interrupted by a + signal (or the exception raised by the signal handler). + + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + The method now waits until the connection completes instead of raising an + :exc:`InterruptedError` exception if the connection is interrupted by a + signal, the signal handler doesn't raise an exception and the socket is + blocking or has a timeout (see the :pep:`475` for the rationale). + .. method:: socket.connect_ex(address) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst index adf770d..7a25d703 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst @@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ Changes in the Python API - :func:`socket.socket` methods: * :meth:`~socket.socket.accept` + * :meth:`~socket.socket.connect` (except for non-blocking sockets) * :meth:`~socket.socket.recv` * :meth:`~socket.socket.recvfrom` * :meth:`~socket.socket.recvmsg` |