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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsocket.tex | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index 5ba43101c3..e9c853af8e 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ sending the data. See the \UNIX{} manual page \manpage{recv}{2} for the meaning of the optional argument \var{flags}; it defaults to zero. (The format of \var{address} depends on the address family --- see above.) +\versionadded{2.5} \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{recv_into}{buffer\optional{, nbytes\optional{, flags}}} @@ -593,6 +594,7 @@ If \var{nbytes} is not specified (or 0), receive up to the size available in the given buffer. See the \UNIX{} manual page \manpage{recv}{2} for the meaning of the optional argument \var{flags}; it defaults to zero. +\versionadded{2.5} \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{send}{string\optional{, flags}} diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index fce392736e..85d5a2a5fa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1704,8 +1704,8 @@ article about them is at \url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7356}. In Python code, netlink addresses are represented as a tuple of 2 integers, \code{(\var{pid}, \var{group_mask})}. -Two new methods on socket objects, \method{recv_buf(\var{buffer})} and -\method{recvfrom_buf(\var{buffer})}, store the received data in an object +Two new methods on socket objects, \method{recv_into(\var{buffer})} and +\method{recvfrom_into(\var{buffer})}, store the received data in an object that supports the buffer protocol instead of returning the data as a string. This means you can put the data directly into an array or a memory-mapped file. |