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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-10-05 17:21:25 (GMT) |
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[doc] Fix gethostbyname_ex description (GH-28700) (GH-28742)
It seems part of `gethostbyname_ex` doc was copied from `gethostbyaddr`. The latter has an `ip_address` parameter whereas the former doesn't.
(cherry picked from commit 4103280b83e1419bef535a42813d6dbe83bfe880)
Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
| -rwxr-xr-x | Doc/library/socket.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 3c81858..b16bf22 100755 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -827,8 +827,8 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: .. function:: gethostbyname_ex(hostname) Translate a host name to IPv4 address format, extended interface. Return a - triple ``(hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist)`` where *hostname* is the primary - host name responding to the given *ip_address*, *aliaslist* is a (possibly + triple ``(hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist)`` where *hostname* is the host's + primary host name, *aliaslist* is a (possibly empty) list of alternative host names for the same address, and *ipaddrlist* is a list of IPv4 addresses for the same interface on the same host (often but not always a single address). :func:`gethostbyname_ex` does not support IPv6 name |