Commit 744fdfbf authored by Berker Peksag's avatar Berker Peksag

Issue #5626: Remove misleading comment from socket.gethostname() documentation

A machine can have more than one IP addresses so
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) probably won't return the correct
one.
parent 49c9edf3
...@@ -568,11 +568,6 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: ...@@ -568,11 +568,6 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services:
Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python
interpreter is currently executing. interpreter is currently executing.
If you want to know the current machine's IP address, you may want to use
``gethostbyname(gethostname())``. This operation assumes that there is a
valid address-to-host mapping for the host, and the assumption does not
always hold.
Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return the fully qualified domain Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return the fully qualified domain
name; use :func:`getfqdn` for that. name; use :func:`getfqdn` for that.
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