From: Georg Brandl Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:28:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 73217 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.1rc2~64 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5123effa289c1ef8a2f5e8b3be554261ae42fbf;p=python Merged revisions 73217 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r73217 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-04 12:27:21 +0200 (Do, 04 Jun 2009) | 1 line #6175: document that inet_aton supports alternate input formats with less than three dots. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index 6cb8f17104..f896b4331e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ 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`.