Terminology

Author: barneygale

Doc/library/pathlib.rst

@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ conforming to :rfc:`8089`.
    .. versionadded:: 3.13
 
    .. versionchanged:: next
-      The URL authority is discarded if it matches the machine hostname.
+      The URL authority is discarded if it matches the local hostname.
       Otherwise, if the authority isn't empty or ``localhost``, then on
       Windows a UNC path is returned (as before), and on other platforms a
       :exc:`ValueError` is raised.

Doc/library/urllib.request.rst

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
    value should include the prefix; a :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` is raised
    if it doesn't.
 
-   The URL authority is discarded if it empty, ``localhost``, or the current
+   The URL authority is discarded if it empty, ``localhost``, or the local
    hostname. Otherwise, if *resolve_netloc* is set to true, the authority is
    resolved using :func:`socket.gethostbyname`, and discarded if it matches a
    local IP address. If the authority is still unhandled, then on Windows a
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
       :exc:`OSError` exception to be raised on Windows.
 
    .. versionchanged:: next
-      The URL authority is discarded if it matches the machine hostname.
+      The URL authority is discarded if it matches the local hostname.
       Otherwise, if the authority isn't empty or ``localhost``, then on
       Windows a UNC path is returned (as before), and on other platforms a
       :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` is raised.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-14-21-17-48.gh-issue-126838.Yr5vKF.rst

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Fix issue where :func:`urllib.request.url2pathname` mishandled file URLs with
 authorities. The process now works as follows:
 
 1. Discard authority if it is empty or ``localhost``; otherwise
-2. (New) Discard authority if it matches the current hostname; otherwise
+2. (New) Discard authority if it matches the local hostname; otherwise
 3. (New) If the new *resolve_netloc* keyword-only argument is set to true,
    discard authority if it resolves to a local IP address; otherwise
 4. On Windows, return a UNC path; otherwise