From: Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:18:48 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Update whatsnew/3.4.rst wrt. the socket constants switch to IntEnum
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a2~62
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34567ec94b17e159fac8424559698f48a713991f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Update whatsnew/3.4.rst wrt. the socket constants switch to IntEnum

[issue #18730]
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 311c683f928a..218b8229776d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ Socket objects have new methods to get or set their `inheritable flag
 
 * :meth:`socket.socket.get_inheritable`, :meth:`socket.socket.set_inheritable`
 
+The ``socket.AF_*`` and ``socket.SOCK_*`` constants are enumeration values,
+using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows descriptive reporting during
+debugging, instead of seeing integer "magic numbers".
 
 ssl
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