__test__ = False if __name__ == '__main__': import eventlet eventlet.monkey_patch() import subprocess import gc p = subprocess.Popen(['ls'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) # the following line creates a _SocketDuckForFd(3) and .close()s it, but the # object has not been collected by the GC yet p.communicate() f = open('/dev/null', 'rb') # f.fileno() == 3 gc.collect() # this calls the __del__ of _SocketDuckForFd(3), close()ing it again f.close() # OSError, because the fd 3 has already been closed print('pass')