[issue32331] Add socket.truetype property
Yury Selivanov
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Dec 15 22:41:19 EST 2017
Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at gmail.com> added the comment:
I've been thinking a lot about this problem, and I'm really tempted to fix sock.type property:
1. The problem first appeared in Python 3.2.
2. Python 2.7 doesn't have this problem at all, and doesn't even export socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK. If we fix this in 3.7 it *will* actually help some poor souls with porting their network applications.
3. People use Python when they want a high-level portable language. This annoying Linux quirk makes it super hard to write correct socket code.
4. I can't actually come up with any decent Linux-only example of using this quirk of socket.type. Why would one check if sock.type has SOCK_NONBLOCK? And even if they check it, one call to sock.settimeout() will make sock.type information outdated and simply wrong.
Let's just fix sock.type?
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