[Python-checkins] r63039 - python/trunk/Doc/library/socket.rst
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Sun May 11 09:06:05 CEST 2008
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sun May 11 09:06:05 2008
New Revision: 63039
Log:
#2742: ``''`` is not converted to NULL in getaddrinfo.
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/library/socket.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/socket.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/library/socket.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/socket.rst Sun May 11 09:06:05 2008
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@
service name (like ``'http'``), a numeric port number or ``None``.
The rest of the arguments are optional and must be numeric if specified. For
- *host* and *port*, by passing either an empty string or ``None``, you can pass
- ``NULL`` to the C API. The :func:`getaddrinfo` function returns a list of
- 5-tuples with the following structure:
+ *host* and *port*, by passing ``None``, you can pass ``NULL`` to the C API.
+ The :func:`getaddrinfo` function returns a list of 5-tuples with the following
+ structure:
``(family, socktype, proto, canonname, sockaddr)``
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@
import socket
import sys
- HOST = '' # Symbolic name meaning all available interfaces
+ HOST = None # Symbolic name meaning all available interfaces
PORT = 50007 # Arbitrary non-privileged port
s = None
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(HOST, PORT, socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE):
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