socket, the module contains socket, the class. In the documentation, the functions of the module are rendered in exactly the same way as the methods of the class: socket.getaddrinfo and socket.accept look 'the same' in the documentation, even though the latter is actually socket.socket.accept. The only clue to that is the paragraph at the beginning of the section, but when e.g. linking to a particular method, that's easy to miss, and the user is left to infer that from the method description (or realise they have to scroll up/which section they're in).

The docs consistently use module.func for module-level functions and class.func for the methods of module.class. That style's fine most of the time and avoids the potential visual overload of always writing module.class.func. Naturally, the confusion arises only because the module and class have the same name in this particular case.

I'm not sure how to best resolve this, but I feel like the current situation is certainly not ideal.