[Python-Dev] test_urllibnet failing on Windows (original) (raw)

Brett C. drifty@alum.berkeley.edu
Fri, 16 May 2003 15:13:34 -0700

Tim Peters wrote:

... The docs for fdopen say nothing about this restriction. Anyone mind if I add to the docs a mention of this limitation?

AFAICT, you only asked me, so I'll answer :

Joys of missing the "reply all" button. I am cc'ing python-dev on this now.

I think this is better spelled out in the docs for socket.fileno(). What it says now:

Return the socket's file descriptor (a small integer). This is useful with select.select(). is correct for Unix, but on Windows it does not return a file descriptor (it returns a Windows socket handle, which is also "a small integer", and is also useful select.select() -- although on both Windows and Unix, select.select() extracts the fileno() from socket objects automatically, so there's no need to invoke fileno() explicitly in order to call select()).

OK. I will fix those docs.

-Brett