[New-bugs-announce] [issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

[John Hagen]

New submission from John Hagen <johnthagen at 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.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 320125
nosy: John Hagen, docs at 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

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