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constructor acts just like socket() before.  All three arguments have
a sensible default now; socket() is equivalent to
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM).

One minor issue: the socket() function and the SocketType had
different doc strings; socket.__doc__ gave the signature,
SocketType.__doc__ gave the methods.  I've merged these for now, but
maybe the list of methods is no longer necessary since it can easily
be recovered through socket.__dict__.keys().  The problem with keeping
it is that the total doc string is a bit long (34 lines -- it scrolls
of a standard tty screen).

Another general issue with the socket module is that it's a big mess.
There's pages and pages of random platform #ifdefs, and the naming
conventions are totally wrong: it uses Py prefixes and CapWords for
static functions.  That's a cleanup for another day...  (Also I think
the big starting comment that summarizes the API can go -- it's a
repeat of the docstring.)