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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/socket.rst5
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/ssl.rst2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
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
diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index f82e565..c4197a5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ to speed up repeated connections from the same clients.
<http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations.html>`_.
The *cadata* object, if present, is either an ASCII string of one or more
- PEM-encoded certificates or a bytes-like object of DER-encoded
+ PEM-encoded certificates or a :term:`bytes-like object` of DER-encoded
certificates. Like with *capath* extra lines around PEM-encoded
certificates are ignored but at least one certificate must be present.