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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/socket.py | 7 |
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diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py index 9b5b23d..2861e0d 100644 --- a/Lib/socket.py +++ b/Lib/socket.py @@ -228,6 +228,13 @@ class SocketIO(io.RawIOBase): the raw I/O interface on top of a socket object. """ + # One might wonder why not let FileIO do the job instead. There are two + # main reasons why FileIO is not adapted: + # - it wouldn't work under Windows (where you can't used read() and + # write() on a socket handle) + # - it wouldn't work with socket timeouts (FileIO would ignore the + # timeout and consider the socket non-blocking) + # XXX More docs def __init__(self, sock, mode): |