https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5a0d51b6291f55652e0ac577988fbb5f28279e04 commit: 5a0d51b6291f55652e0ac577988fbb5f28279e04 branch: 3.11 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2024-02-20T15:00:30Z summary:
[3.11] gh-112020: Document the meaning of empty bytes returned by socket.recv() (GH-112055) (GH-115723) (cherry picked from commit e71468ba4f5fb2da0cefe9e923b01811cb53fb5f) Co-authored-by: talcs <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/socket.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 809c8469e01fe5..3a5368717ac1bf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -1506,8 +1506,9 @@ to sockets. Receive data from the socket. The return value is a bytes object representing the data received. The maximum amount of data to be received at once is specified - by *bufsize*. See the Unix manual page :manpage:`recv(2)` for the meaning of - the optional argument *flags*; it defaults to zero. + by *bufsize*. A returned empty bytes object indicates that the client has disconnected. + See the Unix manual page :manpage:`recv(2)` for the meaning of the optional argument + *flags*; it defaults to zero. .. note:: _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
