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r72085 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-28 23:48:35 +0200 (Di, 28 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Make the doctests in the docs pass, except for those in the turtle module.
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r72132 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-30 00:44:07 +0200 (Do, 30 Apr 2009) | 1 line
#5878: fix repr of re object.
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r72159 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-01 10:51:37 +0200 (Fr, 01 Mai 2009) | 2 lines
#5889: remove comma at the end of a list that some C compilers don't like.
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r72288 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-04 22:42:08 +0200 (Mo, 04 Mai 2009) | 1 line
#5925: fix highlighting of keyword table.
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r72290 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-04 22:45:13 +0200 (Mo, 04 Mai 2009) | 1 line
#5927, 5928: typos.
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r72292 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-04 22:49:17 +0200 (Mo, 04 Mai 2009) | 1 line
#5916, 5917: small socket doc improvements.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 4f2a32e..a435b82 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
:exc:`socket.error` will be raised. Note that exactly what is valid depends on
the underlying C implementation of :cfunc:`inet_aton`.
- :func:`inet_aton` does not support IPv6, and :func:`getnameinfo` should be used
+ :func:`inet_aton` does not support IPv6, and :func:`inet_pton` should be used
instead for IPv4/v6 dual stack support.
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
If the string passed to this function is not exactly 4 bytes in length,
:exc:`socket.error` will be raised. :func:`inet_ntoa` does not support IPv6, and
- :func:`getnameinfo` should be used instead for IPv4/v6 dual stack support.
+ :func:`inet_ntop` should be used instead for IPv4/v6 dual stack support.
.. function:: inet_pton(address_family, ip_string)
@@ -437,6 +437,11 @@
Availability: Unix (maybe not all platforms).
+ .. seealso::
+
+ :func:`ipaddr.BaseIP.packed`
+ Platform-independent conversion to a packed, binary format.
+
.. versionadded:: 2.3