urllib2 - closing sockets

[John J. Lee]

Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:
[...]
> > A patch to fix this in urllib2.py would be nice.
> > Thanks
> > -Anand
> 
> In which case you'd be well advised to add this as a bug report on
> Sourceforge, as that is the only way to guarantee it will come to (and
> stay in) the developers' attention.
> 
> It isn't that hard to do.

Steve's right that it's not hard to do.

Unfortunately, since people who actually fix bugs (ie. Martin von
Loewis <0.8 wink>) are in short supply, that doesn't guarantee that it
will come to anybody's attention.  Of course, you have a *vastly*
higher chance of getting a bug fixed if you provide a patch with
appropriate docs and test code to go with it.


John