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[doc] Fix gethostbyname_ex description (GH-28700) (GH-28743)
authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:22:14 +0000 (10:22 -0700)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:22:14 +0000 (19:22 +0200)
It seems part of `gethostbyname_ex` doc was copied from `gethostbyaddr`. The latter has an `ip_address` parameter whereas the former doesn't.
(cherry picked from commit 4103280b83e1419bef535a42813d6dbe83bfe880)

Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
Doc/library/socket.rst

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@@ -814,8 +814,8 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services:
 .. function:: gethostbyname_ex(hostname)
 
    Translate a host name to IPv4 address format, extended interface. Return a
-   triple ``(hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist)`` where *hostname* is the primary
-   host name responding to the given *ip_address*, *aliaslist* is a (possibly
+   triple ``(hostname, aliaslist, ipaddrlist)`` where *hostname* is the host's
+   primary host name, *aliaslist* is a (possibly
    empty) list of alternative host names for the same address, and *ipaddrlist* is
    a list of IPv4 addresses for the same interface on the same host (often but not
    always a single address). :func:`gethostbyname_ex` does not support IPv6 name