Commit e4f347e7 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Document "" and "<broadcast>".

parent 57c30f6f
......@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular
socket object is automatically selected based on the address family
specified when the socket object was created.
For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host
address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string
\code{"<broadcast>"} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}.
All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid
argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors
related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}.
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......@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ currently not supported. The address format required by a particular
socket object is automatically selected based on the address family
specified when the socket object was created.
For IP addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host
address: the empty string represents \code{INADDR_ANY}, and the string
\code{"<broadcast>"} represents \code{INADDR_BROADCAST}.
All errors raise exceptions. The normal exceptions for invalid
argument types and out-of-memory conditions can be raised; errors
related to socket or address semantics raise the error \code{socket.error}.
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