New submission from John Hagen <johnthagen@gmail.com>: The socket documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket-families) does not list '' as a way to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET/AF_INET6 address family. This is answered on SO here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8034146 but it took me a while to find it. Ideally if this was mentioned in the docs, that would be great. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 320125 nosy: John Hagen, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33921> _______________________________________