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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-08-26 19:54:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-26 19:54:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 719af92e108ea3b31729cb09077673b8f13905d2 (patch) | |
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bpo-40635: Fix getfqdn() docstring and docs (GH-27971)
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit fdcb675eed47b1f6054fae381af4388b16a6fff4)
Co-authored-by: andrei kulakov <andrei.avk@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index e1db1b5..1b6dc4d 100755 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -808,8 +808,9 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: it is interpreted as the local host. To find the fully qualified name, the hostname returned by :func:`gethostbyaddr` is checked, followed by aliases for the host, if available. The first name which includes a period is selected. In - case no fully qualified domain name is available, the hostname as returned by - :func:`gethostname` is returned. + case no fully qualified domain name is available and *name* was provided, + it is returned unchanged. If *name* was empty or equal to ``'0.0.0.0'``, + the hostname from :func:`gethostname` is returned. .. function:: gethostbyname(hostname) |