[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e1a711808cfe by Berker Peksag in branch '3.5': Issue #5626: Remove misleading comment from socket.gethostname() documentation https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e1a711808cfe New changeset 689f881dd5d1 by Berker Peksag in branch 'default': Issue #5626

[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

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[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

Berker Peksag added the comment: I agree with Chris and Ned. I will apply issue5626_v1.diff today. -- stage: -> commit review type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker

[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

Ned Deily added the comment: The point still stands that speaking of "the current machine's IP address" is misleading at best. I'd say either apply Berker's suggested patch or expand the description to better reflect the real world of multiple interfaces. Of course I'm biased. -- _

[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Given that we have not received any more reports on users tripping up on this message, it seems to me that we could just ignore this report and close it. Thoughts? -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker

[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

Chris Angelico added the comment: Python doesn't currently have any sort of function for fetching all a computer's IPs, as far as I know, but if there is one (either now or in the future), it would be good to link to that from there. "Here's how to get your host name. And if you're interested,

[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

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[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

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[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

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[issue5626] misleading comment in socket.gethostname() documentation

New submission from Ned Deily : The documentation for socket.gethostname() contains the following comment: "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