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Pedro Izecksohn <izecksohn@yahoo.com> writes:

>   Shouldn't pickle.dump (obj, conn) raise an Exception if conn is a TCP connection that was closed by the remote host?

It is quite difficult to detect the closing of a TCP channel in
a reliable way. At least, you should not trust that you are reliably
informed about it.

The behavior is related to output to TCP connections, not directly
to "pickle".