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[3.11] Backport PR #112477: correct socket AF_PACKET docs (#112478) 

Backport PR #112477: correct socket AF_PACKET docs

Network byte order is not involved in the `int` on the Python side.
That happens under the hood.

Correctly use the term addresses instead of packets.
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@ -185,12 +185,11 @@ created. Socket addresses are represented as follows:
.. versionadded:: 3.7
- :const:`AF_PACKET` is a low-level interface directly to network devices.
The packets are represented by the tuple
The addresses are represented by the tuple
``(ifname, proto[, pkttype[, hatype[, addr]]])`` where:
- *ifname* - String specifying the device name.
- *proto* - An in network-byte-order integer specifying the Ethernet
protocol number.
- *proto* - An integer specifying the Ethernet protocol number.
- *pkttype* - Optional integer specifying the packet type:
- ``PACKET_HOST`` (the default) - Packet addressed to the local host.