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functions internally. For more details, please see their respective |
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documentation. |
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(Contributed by Adam Goldschmidt, Senthil Kumaran and Ken Jin in :issue:`42967`.) |
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+Notable changes in Python 3.8.12 |
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+================================ |
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+Starting with Python 3.8.12 the :mod:`ipaddress` module no longer accepts |
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+any leading zeros in IPv4 address strings. Leading zeros are ambiguous and |
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+interpreted as octal notation by some libraries. For example the legacy |
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+function :func:`socket.inet_aton` treats leading zeros as octal notation. |
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+glibc implementation of modern :func:`~socket.inet_pton` does not accept |
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+any leading zeros. |
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+(Originally contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`36384`, and backported |
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+to 3.8 by Achraf Merzouki.) |