Issue #1552: socket.socketpair() now returns regular socket.socket
objects supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw"
_socket.socket objects).
diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index bfc9a726..9b5b23d 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -199,6 +199,27 @@
return socket(family, type, proto, nfd)
+if hasattr(_socket, "socketpair"):
+
+ def socketpair(family=None, type=SOCK_STREAM, proto=0):
+ """socketpair([family[, type[, proto]]]) -> (socket object, socket object)
+
+ Create a pair of socket objects from the sockets returned by the platform
+ socketpair() function.
+ The arguments are the same as for socket() except the default family is
+ AF_UNIX if defined on the platform; otherwise, the default is AF_INET.
+ """
+ if family is None:
+ try:
+ family = AF_UNIX
+ except NameError:
+ family = AF_INET
+ a, b = _socket.socketpair(family, type, proto)
+ a = socket(family, type, proto, a.detach())
+ b = socket(family, type, proto, b.detach())
+ return a, b
+
+
class SocketIO(io.RawIOBase):
"""Raw I/O implementation for stream sockets.