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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-06-04 10:27:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-06-04 10:27:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 5000b3b8a7ccb4d457e4b27381fcdd6cf6c8349d (patch) | |
| tree | 9f86d32ab8e0cbdaedd2b7441c65022fb8c56186 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 4a20b1ad5124f1d480783263c26f8bc2a2d5fd3f (diff) | |
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#6175: document that inet_aton supports alternate input formats with less than three dots.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index d1b107e..97fe268 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: library and needs objects of type :ctype:`struct in_addr`, which is the C type for the 32-bit packed binary this function returns. + :func:`inet_aton` also accepts strings with less than three dots; see the + Unix manual page :manpage:`inet(3)` for details. + If the IPv4 address string passed to this function is invalid, :exc:`socket.error` will be raised. Note that exactly what is valid depends on the underlying C implementation of :cfunc:`inet_aton`. |