Alan Kennedy wrote:
> The proposed new function does not belong in the socket module. In
> contrast to all of the other socket creation and management
> functionality in the socket module, the new function does not handle
> non-blocking IO.
The rest of the socket module isn't going anywhere. If you want to do
non-blocking IO, don't use the convenience function that is designed for
use with blocking IO (even better, use a library that makes non-blocking
IO easier to live with, like asyncore or Twisted).
While the name of the proposed function and it's signature need to
change (which Facundo has already acknowledged), correctly looking up an
address and attempting to connect to it is a non-trivial operation, but
one that is duplicated in several stdlib modules (httplib, poplib,
ftplib, smtplib at least).
This level of repetition for a dozen line function is insane - Facundo's
patch is merely the first step towards standardising it.
Cheers,
Nick.
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