From: Guido van Rossum Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 02:21:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document "" and "". X-Git-Tag: v1.5a1~15 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4f347e779c9999de6282ebbfb2ec2112aa87f2a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Document "" and "". --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index baf63732434d..3b6cee09c579 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular socket object is automatically selected based on the address family specified when the socket object was created. +For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host +address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string +\code{""} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}. + All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}. diff --git a/Doc/libsocket.tex b/Doc/libsocket.tex index baf63732434d..3b6cee09c579 100644 --- a/Doc/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/libsocket.tex @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular socket object is automatically selected based on the address family specified when the socket object was created. +For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host +address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string +\code{""} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}. + All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}.