[Python-Dev] sock.close() not closing?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Bill Janssen wrote:
> This particular nasty pattern is deeply entwined in all the code that
> touches the HTTP library in any way, so it will be a big job to get
> rid of it -- basically re-writing HTTP support and all the services
> which use it.  I didn't want to get into that :-).

This would be a good chance for Py3K to dump httplib/urllib/urllib2
and use some more modern library.

--amk