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

[Greg Ewing]

Bill Janssen wrote:

> The HTTP client-side library calls "makefile" on the socket, then
> closes it, then passes the file returned from "makefile" on to
> application code to work with.

Seems to me we really need two different APIs for
doing a makefile()-like operation, depending on
whether you're expecting to get a copy of the
file descriptor or not.

-- 
Greg