"import socket" error

[Fredrik Lundh]

akbarhome at gmail.com wrote:

> I am following this tutorial
>
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=dw-linux-pysocks&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-lnxw07PythonSockets
> ( free reg. req. )
>
> The article told me to do this:
>
> [camus]$ python
> Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 11:25:45)
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>    information.
> >>> import socket
> >>> socket.gethostbyname('www.ibm.com')
> '129.42.19.99'
> >>>
>
> When I try it, I get this error:
> >>> import socket
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 1, in ?
>     # Wrapper module for _socket, providing some additional facilities
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 274, in ?
>     class TCPServer(BaseServer):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 317, in TCPServer
>     address_family = socket.AF_INET
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'
> >>>
>
> Why? Thank you.

your Python installation is broken.  what OS are you using?

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