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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:48:04 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-42620: Improve socket.getsockname doc string (GH-23742)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.2rc1~107
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fe7d83c26b02c8a65c8a9633cc4251f5cd97ebf;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-42620: Improve socket.getsockname doc string (GH-23742)


Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
(cherry picked from commit cf3565ca9a7ed0f7decd000e41fa3de400986e4d)

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 76ef606e10b1..be75e681d45d 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -3407,8 +3407,9 @@ sock_getsockname(PySocketSockObject *s, PyObject *Py_UNUSED(ignored))
 PyDoc_STRVAR(getsockname_doc,
 "getsockname() -> address info\n\
 \n\
-Return the address of the local endpoint.  For IP sockets, the address\n\
-info is a pair (hostaddr, port).");
+Return the address of the local endpoint. The format depends on the\n\
+address family. For IPv4 sockets, the address info is a pair\n\
+(hostaddr, port).");
 
 
 #ifdef HAVE_GETPEERNAME         /* Cray APP doesn't have this :-( */