There is actually more of a story to this though - Cpython's socket.py relies upon reference counting for handling dup. See this comment from socket.py:
# Wrapper around platform socket objects. This implements # a platform-independent dup() functionality. The # implementation currently relies on reference counting # to close the underlying socket object. class _socketobject(object): Because IronPython doesn't have a reference counting GC we cannot simply use socket.py. So someone would need to patch both IronPython and socket.py so this would work. For the record it looks like Jython also has a custom socket.py. From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Curt Hagenlocher Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:59 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] socket, _socket, and socket.py Originally, we weren't allowed to redistribute the Python standard library with IronPython. So it made sense to implement the socket module directly. When IronPython started shipping the standard lib, it could have been changed, but never was. I think it makes sense to follow the CPython pattern. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Zachary Gramana <zgram...@pottsconsultinggroup.com<mailto:zgram...@pottsconsultinggroup.com>> wrote: Hi: I've been working on adapting Mercurial to run on IronPython 2.7, and ran into http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/26852 which has stopped me from getting `hg clone` working over SSL. I noticed that for the ssl module, the IPY team mirrored the CPython pattern of placing the platform-specific code in the _ssl compiled module, and then wrapped the platform-independent around it in ssl.py (almost entirely shared with CPython 2.7). The socket module, however, does not. I admit I have a limited understanding of the code, but at first blush, it appears that adopting the _socket.cs/socket.py isn't out-of-the-question. Is there a story behind this, or am I missing something obvious to everyone else? The immediate benefit would be getting a free implementation of _socketobject, _dummy, and dup(); it also improves DRY conformance, and would help to limit behavioral differences with respect to other implementations. Thanks! Regards, Zack P.S. Any advice on tackling issue #26852 is very warmly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com<mailto:Users@lists.ironpython.com> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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