Geert Jansen added the comment:

> In Python2 socket._socketobject composes with _socket.socket, so we pass 
> "self._sock", that way it has teh right C-level fields. Unfortunately taking 
> a weakref of _socket.socket is not allowed.

I see, and agree that making it weakref-able would be a bad idea for a minor 
release.

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