[docs] Apparent bug in python socket howto

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Sun Apr 14 11:00:00 CEST 2013


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Am 07.12.2011 01:55, schrieb Patrick Maupin:
> Thanks for the howto.  It's a great conceptual introduction, and I was 
> happy to have it to read when I needed to get my hands a bit dirtier than
> using SocketServer.
> 
> But the statement  "If we had used s.bind(('', 80)) [the socket would only
> be] visible within the same machine." appears to be incorrect.
> 
> As the socket module documentation states, "the empty string represents
> INADDR_ANY."

Hi Patrick,

thanks for your report, this is now fixed (very very delayed, I know)
and will appear online soon.

cheers,
Georg

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