socket.sendall broken when a socket has a timeout

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, networking

Research direction

Review the referenced socket-docs.patch and the socket.sendall documentation in the CPython repository. Check how timeout behavior is currently described; done means the documentation clearly covers sendall behavior when a socket has a timeout.

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Description

docs stdlib topic-socket type-bug
BPO 25586
Nosy @vstinner, @vadmium, @jstasiak
Files
  • socket-docs.patch: socket.sendall documentation extension
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-11-08.21:47:35.854>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', 'expert-IO', 'docs']
title = 'socket.sendall broken when a socket has a timeout'
updated_at = <Date 2015-11-12.22:53:32.419>
user = 'https://github.com/jstasiak'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2015-11-12.22:53:32.419>
actor = 'martin.panter'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Library (Lib)', 'IO']
creation = <Date 2015-11-08.21:47:35.854>
creator = 'jstasiak'
dependencies = []
files = ['40994']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 25586
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 13.0
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nosy_count = 4.0
nosy_names = ['vstinner', 'docs@python', 'martin.panter', 'jstasiak']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue25586'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6']

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