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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-05-09 02:21:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-05-09 02:21:51 (GMT) |
| commit | e4f347e779c9999de6282ebbfb2ec2112aa87f2a (patch) | |
| tree | 1197ca7d34347b901d0e03ee53543a9ad3a47f2d /Doc | |
| parent | 57c30f6f37cb654e98637033b8ff1251385fb38b (diff) | |
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Document "" and "<broadcast>".
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index baf6373..3b6cee0 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular socket object is automatically selected based on the address family specified when the socket object was created. +For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host +address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string +\code{"<broadcast>"} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}. + All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}. diff --git a/Doc/libsocket.tex b/Doc/libsocket.tex index baf6373..3b6cee0 100644 --- a/Doc/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/libsocket.tex @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular socket object is automatically selected based on the address family specified when the socket object was created. +For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host +address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string +\code{"<broadcast>"} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}. + All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}. |