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r67089 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-03 14:43:20 -0600 (Mon, 03 Nov 2008) | 1 line
clarify by splitting into multiple paragraphs
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r67091 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-03 16:34:57 -0600 (Mon, 03 Nov 2008) | 1 line
move a FileIO test to test_fileio
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r67101 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-04 14:49:35 -0600 (Tue, 04 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4167: fix markup glitches.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 620d08e..536b3c5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
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@@ -260,11 +260,15 @@
.. function:: gethostname()
Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python
- interpreter is currently executing. If you want to know the current machine's IP
- address, you may want to use ``gethostbyname(gethostname())``. This operation
- assumes that there is a valid address-to-host mapping for the host, and the
- assumption does not always hold. Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return
- the fully qualified domain name; use ``getfqdn()`` (see above).
+ interpreter is currently executing.
+
+ If you want to know the current machine's IP address, you may want to use
+ ``gethostbyname(gethostname())``. This operation assumes that there is a
+ valid address-to-host mapping for the host, and the assumption does not
+ always hold.
+
+ Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return the fully qualified domain
+ name; use ``getfqdn()`` (see above).
.. function:: gethostbyaddr(ip_address)