Will Booth added the comment: Allow users to translate protocol numbers from IPv4/IPv6 headers to a friendly human readable string.
Just filling a gap in the API. There might be a PyPI package out there similar to socket. However, it's complementary function,'getprotobyname', already exist here. getprotobynumber just flips getprotobyname around. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24809> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
