Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > This seems a flawed contract; either connect() should work (in which > case the socket will need closing when it's finished with) or it should > fail, not connect and not require a close call (as it isn't connected)
socket.close() closes the file descriptor, not only the underlying network connection. Otherwise the file descriptor will stay open until the socket object is garbage collected. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15179> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
