problem with socket.gethostname documentation

[maltehelmert]

BPO	1599879

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title = 'problem with socket.gethostname documentation'
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[maltehelmert]

The socket.gethostname documentation contains the following note:

"Note: gethostname() doesn't always return the fully qualified domain name; use gethostbyaddr(gethostname()) (see below)."

However, the socket.gethostbyaddr documentation contains the following piece of information:
"To find the fully qualified domain name, use the function getfqdn()."

I suggest that the note in socket.gethostname be changed to:
"Note: gethostname() doesn't always return the fully qualified domain name; use getfqdn() (see above)."

[nnorwitz]

Good catch! Thanks.

Committed revision 52815. (2.6)
Committed revision 52816. (2.5)
(Probably affects all version back to 2.0 or so.)