Socket state corrupts when original socket object goes out of scope in a different thread

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start with the migrated issue and its original BPO record, then inspect the Python socket documentation to determine whether a documentation change is intended; the payload does not define acceptance criteria for being done.

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Description

docs topic-socket type-bug
BPO 26703
Nosy @pitrou, @vadmium, @MojoVampire

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2016-04-06.18:07:05.803>
labels = ['type-bug', 'docs']
title = 'Socket state corrupts when original socket object goes out of scope in a different thread'
updated_at = <Date 2016-04-08.08:58:54.305>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/JoshN'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2016-04-08.08:58:54.305>
actor = 'pitrou'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2016-04-06.18:07:05.803>
creator = 'JoshN'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 26703
keywords = []
message_count = 10.0
messages = ['262951', '262957', '262958', '262968', '262969', '262973', '262976', '262980', '263009', '263010']
nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['pitrou', 'docs@python', 'martin.panter', 'josh.r', 'JoshN']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue26703'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

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