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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsocket.tex | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index bcbb76f..c845615 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -247,7 +247,11 @@ to the socket on the other end of the connection. \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{bind}{address} Bind the socket to \var{address}. The socket must not already be bound. -(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see above.) +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see +above.) \strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair +of parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a +tuple. This was never intentional and will no longer be available in +Python 1.7. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{close}{} @@ -259,7 +263,10 @@ Sockets are automatically closed when they are garbage-collected. \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{connect}{address} Connect to a remote socket at \var{address}. (The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see -above.) +above.) \strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair +of parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a +tuple. This was never intentional and will no longer be available in +Python 1.7. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{connect_ex}{address} @@ -269,6 +276,10 @@ instead of raising an exception for errors returned by the C-level can still raise exceptions). The error indicator is \code{0} if the operation succeeded, otherwise the value of the \cdata{errno} variable. This is useful, e.g., for asynchronous connects. +\strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair of +parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a tuple. +This was never intentional and will no longer be available in Python +1.7. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{fileno}{} |