Why does sock.close() not actually close sock?
If I run the code
import socket
sock = socket.socket()
...
sock.close()
I would expect that a system call is done to actually close the socket
and free the file descriptor. But that does not happen. Look at the
code in socket.py. It merely replaces the socket instance with a dummy
instance so that all subsequent calls on the sock object fail, but it
does nothing else!
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Sjoerd Mullender
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