Commit 513e9b4f authored by Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti

#16666: document default values for socket.getaddrinfo in the text to clarify...

#16666: document default values for socket.getaddrinfo in the text to clarify that it doesn't accept keyword args.
parent 94704fc2
......@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions:
*source_address* was added.
.. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port, family=0, socktype=0, proto=0, flags=0)
.. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port[, family[, socktype[, proto[, flags]]]])
Translate the *host*/*port* argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain
all the necessary arguments for creating a socket connected to that service.
......@@ -240,12 +240,12 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions:
and *port*, you can pass ``NULL`` to the underlying C API.
The *family*, *socktype* and *proto* arguments can be optionally specified
in order to narrow the list of addresses returned. Passing zero as a
value for each of these arguments selects the full range of results.
in order to narrow the list of addresses returned. By default, their value
is ``0``, meaning that the full range of results is selected.
The *flags* argument can be one or several of the ``AI_*`` constants,
and will influence how results are computed and returned.
For example, :const:`AI_NUMERICHOST` will disable domain name resolution
and will raise an error if *host* is a domain name.
and will influence how results are computed and returned. Its default value
is ``0``. For example, :const:`AI_NUMERICHOST` will disable domain name
resolution and will raise an error if *host* is a domain name.
The function returns a list of 5-tuples with the following structure:
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