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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-10-12 14:20:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-10-12 14:20:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 70fa31c936fa889554f19792eadcffa8f82b3a76 (patch) | |
| tree | 084af6a76a9e2080385d1d47834c3c703bca80fb /Doc/library/socket.rst | |
| parent | f9c774696ee352f561b73ce41b1c0f3f1d64bb1b (diff) | |
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Minimal update of socket docs for PEP 3151.
More editing is probably desirable.
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index f9e0780..28108ab 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -120,20 +120,15 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: .. exception:: error - .. index:: module: errno + A deprecated alias of :exc:`OSError`. - A subclass of :exc:`IOError`, this exception is raised for socket-related - errors. It is recommended that you inspect its ``errno`` attribute to - discriminate between different kinds of errors. - - .. seealso:: - The :mod:`errno` module contains symbolic names for the error codes - defined by the underlying operating system. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + Following :pep:`3151`, this class was made an alias of :exc:`OSError`. .. exception:: herror - A subclass of :exc:`socket.error`, this exception is raised for + A subclass of :exc:`OSError`, this exception is raised for address-related errors, i.e. for functions that use *h_errno* in the POSIX C API, including :func:`gethostbyname_ex` and :func:`gethostbyaddr`. The accompanying value is a pair ``(h_errno, string)`` representing an @@ -141,10 +136,12 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: *string* represents the description of *h_errno*, as returned by the :c:func:`hstrerror` C function. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + This class was made a subclass of :exc:`OSError`. .. exception:: gaierror - A subclass of :exc:`socket.error`, this exception is raised for + A subclass of :exc:`OSError`, this exception is raised for address-related errors by :func:`getaddrinfo` and :func:`getnameinfo`. The accompanying value is a pair ``(error, string)`` representing an error returned by a library call. *string* represents the description of @@ -152,15 +149,19 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: numeric *error* value will match one of the :const:`EAI_\*` constants defined in this module. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + This class was made a subclass of :exc:`OSError`. .. exception:: timeout - A subclass of :exc:`socket.error`, this exception is raised when a timeout + A subclass of :exc:`OSError`, this exception is raised when a timeout occurs on a socket which has had timeouts enabled via a prior call to :meth:`~socket.settimeout` (or implicitly through :func:`~socket.setdefaulttimeout`). The accompanying value is a string whose value is currently always "timed out". + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + This class was made a subclass of :exc:`OSError`. .. data:: AF_UNIX AF_INET |