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Note side benefit of socket.create_connection()

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2009-10-05 21:25:35 +00:00
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environments. TIPC addresses are 4- or 5-tuples.
(Contributed by Alberto Bertogli; :issue:`1646`.)
A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address
and connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning
the connected socket object.
A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address and
connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning the
connected socket object. This function also looks up the address's
type and connects to it using IPv4 or IPv6 as appropriate. Changing
your code to use :func:`create_connection` instead of
``socket(socket.AF_INET, ...)`` may be all that's required to make
your code work with IPv6.
* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity