[issue26227] Windows: socket.gethostbyaddr(name) fails for non-ASCII hostname

[William Dias]

William Dias <william.dias at gmail.com> added the comment:

Shouldn't this issue be solved for Python  3.7.5? Or do I have to manually apply the patch?

I have a windows 8.1 x64 PC whose hostname contains special characters. When creating a socket, the gethostbyaddr() method raises a UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byt 0xe1 in position 1.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks

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nosy: +williamdias
type:  -> crash
versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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