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Issue #19234: Documents socket.fileno() returns -1 on failure

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Kushal Das 10 years ago
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@ -927,14 +927,13 @@ to sockets.
.. method:: socket.fileno()
Return the socket's file descriptor (a small integer). This is useful with
:func:`select.select`.
Return the socket's file descriptor (a small integer), or -1 on failure. This
is useful with :func:`select.select`.
Under Windows the small integer returned by this method cannot be used where a
file descriptor can be used (such as :func:`os.fdopen`). Unix does not have
this limitation.
.. method:: socket.get_inheritable()
Get the :ref:`inheritable flag <fd_inheritance>` of the socket's file

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