Commit 2bc930f0 authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

whatsnew: epoll supports with.

Also reworded the description of the feature in the docs.
parent d9ddd3f9
......@@ -58,9 +58,14 @@ The module defines the following:
which can be used as Edge or Level Triggered interface for I/O
events. *sizehint* is deprecated and completely ignored. *flags* can be set
to :const:`EPOLL_CLOEXEC`, which causes the epoll descriptor to be closed
automatically when :func:`os.execve` is called. See section
:ref:`epoll-objects` below for the methods supported by epolling objects.
They also support the :keyword:`with` statement.
automatically when :func:`os.execve` is called.
See the :ref:`epoll-objects` section below for the methods supported by
epolling objects.
``epoll`` objects support the context management protocol: when used in a
:keyword:`with` statement, the new file descriptor is automatically closed
at the end of the block.
The new file descriptor is :ref:`non-inheritable <fd_inheritance>`.
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......@@ -851,6 +851,15 @@ New :func:`resource.prlimit` function and Linux specific constants.
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`16595` and :issue:`19324`.)
select
------
:class:`~select.epoll` objects now support the context management protocol.
When used in a :keyword:`with` statement, the :meth:`~select.epoll.close`
method will be called automatically at the end of the block. (Contributed
by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16488`.)
shelve
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