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chrisaycock

opened on May 24, 2023

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The documentation for socket.getblocking() states:

This is equivalent to checking socket.gettimeout() == 0.

But that's the opposite of what it means. According to the source code, getblocking() returns False if and only if gettimeout() returns 0.0.

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• gh-104882: Docs: fix description of relationship between socket.getblocking() and socket.gettimeout() #105026
• [3.12] gh-104882: Docs: fix description of relationship between socket.getblocking() and socket.gettimeout() (GH-105026) #105283
• [3.11] gh-104882: Docs: fix description of relationship between socket.getblocking() and socket.gettimeout() (GH-105026) #105284

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5. AlexWaygood commented on Jun 4, 2023

   

   AlexWaygood

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   Fixed, and backported to 3.12 and 3.11

   Reacted by Christopher C. Aycock
6. AlexWaygood

   closed this as completedon Jun 4, 2023

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