Richard Oudkerk added the comment:
> The "fileno" argument looks like an implementation detail to me.
It has at least one potential use. On Windows socket.detach() returns a socket
handle but there is no documented way to close it -- os.close() will not work.
The only way to close it that I can see (without resorting to ctypes) is with
something like
socket.socket(fileno=handle).close()
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