On 2017-01-21, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> | __init__(self, family=2, type=1, proto=0, _sock=None) >> | >> >> Ah! There's a keyword argument that doesn't appear in the docs, so >> let's try that... > > That's marginally better than my monkeypatch-after-creation > suggestion, but still broadly the same. Your code may well break in > other Python implementations, but within CPython 2.7, you should be > pretty safe.
For those of you still paying attention... It looks like CPython 3.4 socket.fromfd() does return the same type object as socket.socket(). And, using the fileno= argument to socket.socket() avoids duplicating the descriptor. Looks like somebody with a time machine read my original post... -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list