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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/socket.py')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/socket.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
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 |