socket.gethostbyname() AttributeError

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:12:58PM +0000, Ralph wrote:
> I assumed that for scoket.gethostbyname(host), I was to pass a host of the 
> type "theodore.chipmunks.com" and that I would get back an IP address as a 
> doted quad.  Obviously I am wrong about the form of the arguement I am to 
> pass to the function, because I am getting an AttributeError message.
> 
> Can anyone offer some insight?

Python 2.2 (#1, Dec 24 2001, 17:25:15) 
[GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyname("www.python.org")
'194.109.137.226'

Oleg.
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