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author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2010-01-03 03:28:29 (GMT) |
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committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2010-01-03 03:28:29 (GMT) |
commit | b4066374db45af2927eb5cde68f9b030eaec1b96 (patch) | |
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r77263 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-01-02 17:29:44 -0800 (Sat, 02 Jan 2010) | 4 lines
Adds an optional source_address parameter to socket.create_connection().
For use by issue3972.
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r77264 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-01-02 18:06:07 -0800 (Sat, 02 Jan 2010) | 5 lines
issue3972: HTTPConnection and HTTPSConnection now support a
source_address parameter.
Also cleans up an annotation in the socket documentation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 79a4964..ec8ff3d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: this platform. -.. function:: create_connection(address[, timeout]) +.. function:: create_connection(address[, timeout[, source_address]]) Convenience function. Connect to *address* (a 2-tuple ``(host, port)``), and return the socket object. Passing the optional *timeout* parameter will @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: *timeout* is supplied, the global default timeout setting returned by :func:`getdefaulttimeout` is used. + If supplied, *source_address* must be a 2-tuple ``(host, port)`` for the + socket to bind to as its source address before connecting. If host or port + are '' or 0 respectively the OS default behavior will be used. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 + *source_address* was added. + .. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port[, family[, socktype[, proto[, flags]]]]) |