[Python-Dev] Now test_socket fails

[Michael Gilfix]

  Would a little trick like this do?

  class socket:
    pass

  class unix_socket(socket):
    pass

  class windows_socket(socket):
    # Old windows stuff

  And then just do the namespace shuffling that's kinda already done
in socket.py.

                    -- Mike

On Wed, Jul 31 @ 13:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> (There's another change we should really make -- instead of a socket
> function, there should be a class socket whose constructor does the
> work.  That's necessary so that isinstance(s, socket.socket) works on
> Windows; this currently works on Unix but not on Windows.  But I don't
> have time for that now; the above patch should do what you need.)

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