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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 07:06:05 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 07:06:05 (GMT)
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#2742: ``''`` is not converted to NULL in getaddrinfo.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/socket.rst8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index e3591f6..b6640ae 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions:
service name (like ``'http'``), a numeric port number or ``None``.
The rest of the arguments are optional and must be numeric if specified. For
- *host* and *port*, by passing either an empty string or ``None``, you can pass
- ``NULL`` to the C API. The :func:`getaddrinfo` function returns a list of
- 5-tuples with the following structure:
+ *host* and *port*, by passing ``None``, you can pass ``NULL`` to the C API.
+ The :func:`getaddrinfo` function returns a list of 5-tuples with the following
+ structure:
``(family, socktype, proto, canonname, sockaddr)``
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ sends traffic to the first one connected successfully. ::
import socket
import sys
- HOST = '' # Symbolic name meaning all available interfaces
+ HOST = None # Symbolic name meaning all available interfaces
PORT = 50007 # Arbitrary non-privileged port
s = None
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(HOST, PORT, socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE):