days
networks are so good that, under normal circumstances, few errors 
happen in practice.
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<p>
An UDP socket object is  created by the 
<a href=udp.html#udp><tt>socket.udp</tt></a> function. UDP
sockets  do   not  need   to  be  connected   before  use.   The  method
<a href=udp.html#sendto><tt>sendto</tt></a>  
can  be  used  immediately after  creation  to
send  a datagram to  IP address and port. Host names  are not allowed
because performing name resolution for each packet would be forbiddingly
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