[Python-Dev] test_urllibnet failing on Windows
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 <wink>:
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