Barry A. Warsaw writes:
I don't agree that socket.connect() and friends need this fix. Yes, obviously append() needed fixing because of the application of Tim's Twelfth Enlightenment to the semantic ambiguity. But socket.connect() has no such ambiguity; you may spell it differently, but you know exactly what you mean.
Crock. The address representations have been fairly well defined for quite a while. Be explicit.
sock.connect(addr)
This is the only legal signature. (host, port) is simply the form of addr for a particular address family.
One nit on the documentation of the socket module. The second entry says:
bind (address) Bind the socket to address. The socket must not already be bound. (The format of address depends on the address family -- see above.)
Huh? What "above" part should I see? Note that I'm reading this doc off the web!
Definately written for the paper document! Remind me about this again in a month and I'll fix it, but I don't want to play games with this little stuff until the 1.5.2p2 and 1.6 trees have been merged. Harrumph. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives