Added notes about the eventual disappearance of two-parameter bind(),
connect(), and connect_ex().
I didn't make these deprecation notices since it was never a
documented feature.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index bcbb76f..c845615 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -247,7 +247,11 @@
\begin{methoddesc}[socket]{bind}{address}
Bind the socket to \var{address}. The socket must not already be bound.
-(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see above.)
+(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see
+above.) \strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair
+of parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a
+tuple. This was never intentional and will no longer be available in
+Python 1.7.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[socket]{close}{}
@@ -259,7 +263,10 @@
\begin{methoddesc}[socket]{connect}{address}
Connect to a remote socket at \var{address}.
(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see
-above.)
+above.) \strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair
+of parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a
+tuple. This was never intentional and will no longer be available in
+Python 1.7.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[socket]{connect_ex}{address}
@@ -269,6 +276,10 @@
can still raise exceptions). The error indicator is \code{0} if the
operation succeeded, otherwise the value of the \cdata{errno}
variable. This is useful, e.g., for asynchronous connects.
+\strong{Note:} This method has historically accepted a pair of
+parameters for \constant{AF_INET} addresses instead of only a tuple.
+This was never intentional and will no longer be available in Python
+1.7.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[socket]{fileno}{}