file objects choices?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.1047931167.5356.python-list at python.org>, e y suzuki wrote:
> 
> are there any existing python file i/o types that can be represented
> by file objects other than:
>     -direct files (regular, directories) specified for the open function
>     -stdin, stdout, stderr streams via sys module
>     -input from piped commands of output from program executed by os/
>         another program

s = socket.socket(...)
f = s.makefile('r+b')

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