From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:22:14 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [doc] Fix gethostbyname_ex description (GH-28700) (GH-28743) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.8~101 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=950b324973a98ec45c21e7e7149415259a045ff7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [doc] Fix gethostbyname_ex description (GH-28700) (GH-28743) 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 Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index cc8c5650dec3..bc8723a90daa 100755 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -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