[issue12463] Calling SocketServer.shutdown() when server_forever() was not called will hang

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> added the comment:

IMHO, both methods should raise an exception (RuntimeError maybe) in case the server is already started or stopped, at least in Python 3.3, while previous python versions should silently "pass".

It also makes sense to add a "running" property returning a bool, as suggested by Petri.

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