Note side benefit of socket.create_connection()
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
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environments. TIPC addresses are 4- or 5-tuples.
(Contributed by Alberto Bertogli; :issue:`1646`.)
- A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address
- and connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning
- the connected socket object.
+ A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address and
+ connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning the
+ connected socket object. This function also looks up the address's
+ type and connects to it using IPv4 or IPv6 as appropriate. Changing
+ your code to use :func:`create_connection` instead of
+ ``socket(socket.AF_INET, ...)`` may be all that's required to make
+ your code work with IPv6.
* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity