From 5000b3b8a7ccb4d457e4b27381fcdd6cf6c8349d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:27:21 +0000 Subject: #6175: document that inet_aton supports alternate input formats with less than three dots. --- Doc/library/socket.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index d1b107e..97fe268 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions: library and needs objects of type :ctype:`struct in_addr`, which is the C type for the 32-bit packed binary this function returns. + :func:`inet_aton` also accepts strings with less than three dots; see the + Unix manual page :manpage:`inet(3)` for details. + If the IPv4 address string passed to this function is invalid, :exc:`socket.error` will be raised. Note that exactly what is valid depends on the underlying C implementation of :cfunc:`inet_aton`. -- cgit v0.12