From: Eli Bendersky Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 03:49:01 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Issue 12126: removing incorrect claim about return value of select X-Git-Tag: v2.7.2rc1~25 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e91b305d28f15e2dcbd99ba47ff39808cb2bf4c4;p=python Issue 12126: removing incorrect claim about return value of select --- diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index 443b15f50e..b0a3fa4df4 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -357,8 +357,7 @@ reason to do otherwise. In return, you will get three lists. They contain the sockets that are actually readable, writable and in error. Each of these lists is a subset (possibly -empty) of the corresponding list you passed in. If you put a socket in more -than one input list, it will only be (at most) in one output list. +empty) of the corresponding list you passed in. If a socket is in the output readable list, you can be as-close-to-certain-as-we-ever-get-in-this-business that a ``recv`` on that