Devil merge!
Merged revisions 66561,66564,66580,66610,66614,66618,66624-66625,66628-66629,66643,66645,66660-66665 via svnmerge from
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r66561 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-22 17:13:29 -0500 (Mon, 22 Sep 2008) | 1 line
clean up docs for platform's linux_distribution and dist functions
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r66564 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-23 08:32:46 -0500 (Tue, 23 Sep 2008) | 1 line
mention how to override boolean evaluation
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r66580 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-24 04:47:55 -0500 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
Indentation normalization.
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r66610 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-24 12:27:55 -0500 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Improve wording
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r66614 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-24 17:11:59 -0500 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008) | 4 lines
#3950 fix missing scale factors in turtle.py
reviewers: Georg, Benjamin
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r66618 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-25 15:35:45 -0500 (Thu, 25 Sep 2008) | 1 line
add a NEWs entry for r66614
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r66624 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-09-25 18:31:52 -0500 (Thu, 25 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Fix namedtuple bug reported by Glenn Linderman. Template did not form correctly if the field names were input in Unicode.
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r66625 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-25 21:58:36 -0500 (Thu, 25 Sep 2008) | 1 line
add the beginnings of a C-API 2 -> 3 porting guide
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r66628 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-26 15:52:06 -0500 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008) | 1 line
add an 'other options' section
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r66629 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-26 16:15:21 -0500 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008) | 2 lines
typos.
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r66643 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-27 09:12:33 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Add a last bunch of items
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r66645 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 11:23:55 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
2to3's api should be considered unstable
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r66660 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-27 17:54:08 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
#3510: future-proof text
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r66661 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 18:28:43 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
clarify a few things
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r66662 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-27 19:15:27 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
#1579477: mention necessity to flush output before exec'ing
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r66663 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-09-27 20:08:47 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
#1415508: Document two functions
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r66664 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 20:51:36 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
better grammar
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r66665 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 20:53:29 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line
note the 2to3 -d could be useful for other refactoring
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 8f78498..620d08e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -207,18 +207,18 @@
.. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port[, family[, socktype[, proto[, flags]]]])
Resolves the *host*/*port* argument, into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain
- all the necessary argument for the sockets manipulation. *host* is a domain
- name, a string representation of IPv4/v6 address or ``None``. *port* is a string
- service name (like ``'http'``), a numeric port number or ``None``.
+ all the necessary arguments for creating the corresponding socket. *host* is a domain
+ name, a string representation of an IPv4/v6 address or ``None``. *port* is a string
+ service name such as ``'http'``, a numeric port number or ``None``.
+ The rest of the arguments are optional and must be numeric if specified.
+ By passing ``None`` as the value of *host* and *port*, , you can pass ``NULL`` to the C API.
- The rest of the arguments are optional and must be numeric if specified. For
- *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)``
- *family*, *socktype*, *proto* are all integer and are meant to be passed to the
+ *family*, *socktype*, *proto* are all integers and are meant to be passed to the
:func:`socket` function. *canonname* is a string representing the canonical name
of the *host*. It can be a numeric IPv4/v6 address when :const:`AI_CANONNAME` is
specified for a numeric *host*. *sockaddr* is a tuple describing a socket
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
Return a fully qualified domain name for *name*. If *name* is omitted or empty,
it is interpreted as the local host. To find the fully qualified name, the
- hostname returned by :func:`gethostbyaddr` is checked, then aliases for the
+ hostname returned by :func:`gethostbyaddr` is checked, followed by aliases for the
host, if available. The first name which includes a period is selected. In
case no fully qualified domain name is available, the hostname as returned by
:func:`gethostname` is returned.