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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.
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Berker Peksag 11 years ago
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@ -568,11 +568,6 @@ The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services:
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.

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