[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread Steve Dower
Change by Steve Dower : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread miss-islington
miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 30f295b85ece2dc2b2b65018bd15090efa1de7dc by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': bpo-33921: Clarify how to bind to all interfaces using socket (GH-7877) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/30f295b85ece2dc2b2b65018bd15090efa1de7dc

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread miss-islington
miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 23355445625b8b41030dbda9decaf2f4aa7035a6 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-33921: Clarify how to bind to all interfaces using socket (GH-7877) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/23355445625b8b41030dbda9decaf2f4aa7035a6

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread miss-islington
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[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread miss-islington
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[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-07-28 Thread Christian Heimes
Christian Heimes added the comment: New changeset 95dfb9c3aefdc981d23af700b753a6c97159ccad by Christian Heimes (johnthagen) in branch 'master': bpo-33921: Clarify how to bind to all interfaces using socket (GH-7877)

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-06-23 Thread Roundup Robot
Change by Roundup Robot : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +7484 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-06-22 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: John, since you raised the issue, would you like to provide a doc PR? -- keywords: +easy nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> needs patch versions: -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-06-21 Thread John Hagen
John Hagen added the comment: @ammar2 I see that now. Yeah it's further down in the docs and doesn't actually call out '' like is done for AF_CAN: A tuple (interface, ) is used for the AF_CAN address family, where interface is a string representing a network interface name like 'can0'. The

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-06-21 Thread Ammar Askar
Ammar Askar added the comment: It's kinda mentioned: "For IPv4 addresses, two special forms are accepted instead of a host address: the empty string represents INADDR_ANY" Though it could be more explicit on what means since binding to all interfaces is a common use case. -- nosy:

[issue33921] Explain that '' can be used to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET address family in the docs

2018-06-20 Thread John Hagen
New submission from John Hagen : The socket documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket-families) does not list '' as a way to bind to all interfaces for the AF_INET/AF_INET6 address family. This is answered on SO here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8034146 but it took