New submission from Alexander Patrakov: See the example at https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.getaddrinfo

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socket.getaddrinfo("www.python.org", 80, 0, 0, socket.SOL_TCP)

As I am primarily a C programmer, it is quite surprising for me to see a SOL_* being passed into the proto argument. I thought that SOL_* is only for setsockopt(), and IPPROTO_* would be suitable. Yes, for TCP and UDP the SOL_* and IPPROTO_* constants are the same, but see e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms737530%28v=vs.85%2... which specifically points out that IPPROTO_* constants as acceptable values. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 225659 nosy: Alexander.Patrakov, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Possibly incorrect example is given for socket.getaddrinfo() type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22249> _______________________________________