Hi, thanks for your contribution! Documentation give examples implementation of your methods: - https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.socket.sendmsg - https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.socket.recvmsg and from here, some remarks: - Why allowing people to mix fds and file objects? I'm not a fan of this: I prefer the clarity of allowing only file descriptors. Have you seen such methods (allowing both fd and file obj) in the stdlib? - The documented implementation for recv_io checks for integer truncation, there may be a good reason, should'n you do the same? - The documented implementation allows to pass a message, shouldn't you at least allow for an optional message to be passed? Adding those methods may make sense if people are copying send_fds/recv_fds in their code, but I found only two copy/paste in github, so I think the best is to put your code as a module on pypi and see, from here, if it gets popular? You should also write a few tests, and comply to the PEP8 (your two methods should probably be separated by a newline). Bests