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diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index ed1b10a254..95ce9eb61c 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ class socket(_socket.socket):
encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None):
"""makefile(...) -> an I/O stream connected to the socket
- The arguments are as for io.open() after the filename,
- except the only mode characters supported are 'r', 'w' and 'b'.
- The semantics are similar too. (XXX refactor to share code?)
+ The arguments are as for io.open() after the filename, except the only
+ supported mode values are 'r' (default), 'w' and 'b'.
"""
+ # XXX refactor to share code?
if not set(mode) <= {"r", "w", "b"}:
raise ValueError("invalid mode %r (only r, w, b allowed)" % (mode,))
writing = "w" in mode