R. David Murray added the comment: You pegged it when you said the behavior is inherited from C. Technically this isn't a bug in Python, since the socket module is a set of (mostly) thin wrappers around the C.
Enhancing CPython to do the check is not a bad suggestion, especially since it seems that other languages and implementations do so. We won't fix this in a maintenance release, though, since it would pointlessly break working code (even if that code is technically buggy). ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray stage: -> needs patch type: behavior -> enhancement versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24169> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
