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changeset: 99994:e1a711808cfe branch: 3.5 parent: 99991:7415a9386048 user: Berker Peksag berker.peksag@gmail.com date: Wed Jan 20 08:45:37 2016 +0200 files: Doc/library/socket.rst description: Issue #5626: Remove misleading comment from socket.gethostname() documentation A machine can have more than one IP addresses so socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) probably won't return the correct one. diff -r 7415a9386048 -r e1a711808cfe Doc/library/socket.rst --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst Wed Jan 20 07:14:22 2016 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst Wed Jan 20 08:45:37 2016 +0200 @@ -568,11 +568,6 @@ Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the Python interpreter is currently executing. - 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, and the assumption does not - always hold. - Note: :func:`gethostname` doesn't always return the fully qualified domain name; use :func:`getfqdn` for that. /berker.peksag@gmail.com