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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 830e82d..e330f0a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -1123,7 +1123,8 @@ to sockets. Send normal and ancillary data to the socket, gathering the non-ancillary data from a series of buffers and concatenating it into a single message. The *buffers* argument specifies the - non-ancillary data as an iterable of buffer-compatible objects + non-ancillary data as an iterable of + :term:`bytes-like objects <bytes-like object>` (e.g. :class:`bytes` objects); the operating system may set a limit (:func:`~os.sysconf` value ``SC_IOV_MAX``) on the number of buffers that can be used. The *ancdata* argument specifies the ancillary @@ -1131,7 +1132,7 @@ to sockets. ``(cmsg_level, cmsg_type, cmsg_data)``, where *cmsg_level* and *cmsg_type* are integers specifying the protocol level and protocol-specific type respectively, and *cmsg_data* is a - buffer-compatible object holding the associated data. Note that + bytes-like object holding the associated data. Note that some systems (in particular, systems without :func:`CMSG_SPACE`) might support sending only one control message per call. The *flags* argument defaults to 0 and has the same meaning as for |