[Python-Dev] socket module changes

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

  This is a brief description of what I plan to check in to make the
changes we've discussed regarding the socket module.  I'll make the
checkins tomorrow morning, allowing you all night to scream if you
think that'll help.  ;)
  Windows and BeOS both use a wrapper module, but these are
essentially identical; the Windows variant has evolved a bit more, but
that evolution is useful for BeOS as well, aside from the errorTab
table (which gives messages for Windows-specific error numbers).  I
will be moving the sharable portions to a new module, _dupless_socket,
which the new socket module will import on Windows and BeOS.  (That
name indicates why they use a wrapper in the first place!)  The
errorTab definition will be moved to the new socket module and will
only be defined on Windows.  The exist wrappers, plat-beos/socket.py
and plat-win/socket.py, will be removed.
  socketmodule.c will only build as _socket, allowing much
simplification of the conditional compilation at the top of the
initialization function.
  The socket module will include the make_fqdn() implementation,
adjusted to make local references to the socket module facilities it
requires and to use string methods instead of using the string
module.  It is documented.
  The docstring in _socket will be moved to socket.py.
  If the screaming doesn't wake me, I'll check this in in the
morning.  The regression test isn't complaining!  ;)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at beopen.com>
BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member