Github user cherrot commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/945#issuecomment-199073494
A try-except block is surely needed when we do something relative to the
physical world, but we are not discussing on that, right?
>It's perfectly possible without modifying Thrift: just store TSocket
instance and use its handle attribute.
Yes it is possible, but far from perfect: the `TSocket` object is
initialized as a parameter for initializing the `TTransport` instance. Since
`TTransport` does not want me to access the `TSocket` object from it, I have no
responsibility to maintain the socket's state.
Furthermore, if this is not the approach you prefer, then why is there a
`peek` method in C++ lib? If it can be used in the logic of the server side, it
can surely be used in the client side.
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