Issue #28332: Deprecated silent truncations in socket.htons and socket.ntohs.

Original patch by Oren Milman.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 6909a64..d33bbc3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -664,6 +664,12 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services:
    where the host byte order is the same as network byte order, this is a no-op;
    otherwise, it performs a 2-byte swap operation.
 
+   .. deprecated:: 3.7
+      In case *x* does not fit in 16-bit unsigned integer, but does fit in a
+      positive C int, it is silently truncated to 16-bit unsigned integer.
+      This silent truncation feature is deprecated, and will raise an
+      exception in future versions of Python.
+
 
 .. function:: htonl(x)
 
@@ -678,6 +684,12 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services:
    where the host byte order is the same as network byte order, this is a no-op;
    otherwise, it performs a 2-byte swap operation.
 
+   .. deprecated:: 3.7
+      In case *x* does not fit in 16-bit unsigned integer, but does fit in a
+      positive C int, it is silently truncated to 16-bit unsigned integer.
+      This silent truncation feature is deprecated, and will raise an
+      exception in future versions of Python.
+
 
 .. function:: inet_aton(ip_string)