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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-01-20 06:45:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-01-20 06:45:37 (GMT) |
| commit | 744fdfbf9a749c3adfe01d927af15a5b54e75878 (patch) | |
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| parent | 49c9edf3d9169a5e9c7c51826711c34435eaaf60 (diff) | |
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Issue #5626: Remove misleading comment from socket.gethostname() documentation
A machine can have more than one IP addresses so
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) probably won't return the correct
one.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index a081756..8d90698 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -568,11 +568,6 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python interpreter is currently executing. - If you want to know the current machine's IP address, you may want to use - ``gethostbyname(gethostname())``. This operation assumes that there is a - valid address-to-host mapping for the host, and the assumption does not - always hold. - Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return the fully qualified domain name; use :func:`getfqdn` for that. |