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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 27d8e5c..8b71153 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -2416,9 +2416,13 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. environments. TIPC addresses are 4- or 5-tuples. (Contributed by Alberto Bertogli; :issue:`1646`.) - A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address - and connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning - the connected socket object. + A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address and + connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning the + connected socket object. This function also looks up the address's + type and connects to it using IPv4 or IPv6 as appropriate. Changing + your code to use :func:`create_connection` instead of + ``socket(socket.AF_INET, ...)`` may be all that's required to make + your code work with IPv6. * The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity |