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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2004-12-01 00:57:12 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2004-12-01 00:57:12 (GMT)
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Mention getservbyport(). There's no patch number in the CVS log, so I assume Barry wrote the code.
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@@ -1422,9 +1422,10 @@ sidestep the checking and if you were unlucky Python could segfault.
Python 2.4's regular expression engine can match this pattern without
problems.
-\item A new \function{socketpair()} function, returning a pair of
-connected sockets, was added to the \module{socket} module.
-(Contributed by Dave Cole.)
+\item Two new functions were added to the \module{socket} module.
+\function{socketpair()} returns a pair of connected sockets and
+\function{getservbyport(\var{port})} looks up the service name for a
+given port number. (Contributed by Dave Cole and Barry Warsaw.)
\item The \function{sys.exitfunc()} function has been deprecated. Code
should be using the existing \module{atexit} module, which correctly