#6175: document that inet_aton supports alternate input formats with less than three dots.

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Georg Brandl 2009-06-04 10:27:21 +00:00
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@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ The module :mod:`socket` exports the following constants and functions:
library and needs objects of type :ctype:`struct in_addr`, which is the C type
for the 32-bit packed binary this function returns.
:func:`inet_aton` also accepts strings with less than three dots; see the
Unix manual page :manpage:`inet(3)` for details.
If the IPv4 address string passed to this function is invalid,
:exc:`socket.error` will be raised. Note that exactly what is valid depends on
the underlying C implementation of :cfunc:`inet_aton`.