From: Charles-François Natali Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:42:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Issue #6774: Back out c8b77efe8b56, which only brings confusion. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~283 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdc878e56298c9da9720f1298a8b780a189ce029;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #6774: Back out c8b77efe8b56, which only brings confusion. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index a8d3b93dc230..cb2ab23abff6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -1071,9 +1071,7 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets. Shut down one or both halves of the connection. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RD`, further receives are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_WR`, further sends are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RDWR`, further sends and receives are - disallowed. Depending on the platform, shutting down one half of the connection - can also close the opposite half (e.g. on Mac OS X, ``shutdown(SHUT_WR)`` does - not allow further reads on the other end of the connection). + disallowed. Note that there are no methods :meth:`read` or :meth:`write`; use :meth:`~socket.recv` and :meth:`~socket.send` without *flags* argument instead.