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# objspace.usemodules._socket

- name: _socket
- description: use module _socket
- command-line: –withmod-_socket
- command-line for negation: –withoutmod-_socket
- option type: boolean option
- default: False

Use the ‘_socket’ module.

This is our implementation of ‘_socket’, the Python builtin module exposing socket primitives, which is wrapped and used by the standard library ‘socket.py’ module. It is based on rffi.

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