[issue808164] socket.close() doesn't play well with __del__

[Daniel Stutzbach]

Daniel Stutzbach <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> added the comment:

The purpose of calling .close() in __del__ is to close the socket when the owner is destroyed yet the program is still running.

This prevents the socket from staying open if some other part of the program has somehow acquired a reference to it.  telnetlib, urllib, and even the socket module itself contain classes that call .close() within __del__ for this purpose.

Unfortunately, that can result in ugly error messages when the interpreter is exiting.

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