socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

[flamesrock]

Ahh that works! thanks a bunch Gabriel

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Thursday 28/12/2006 00:11, flamesrock wrote:
>
>
> >The problem is that, while the login opener works, the
> >update_city_params opener does not. It returns the following error:
> >flamesrock at tux ~/send $ python send.py
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "send.py", line 14, in ?
> >     opener.open(url, update_city_params)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 356, in open
> >     req = meth(req)
> >   File "/home/flamesrock/asdf/MultipartPostHandler.py", line 75, in
> >http_request
> >     boundary, data = self.multipart_encode(v_vars, v_files)
> >   File "/home/flamesrock/asdf/MultipartPostHandler.py", line 87, in
> >multipart_encode
> >     boundary = mimetools.choose_boundary()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/mimetools.py", line 130, in choose_boundary
> >     hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> >socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>
> MultipartPostHandler uses mimetools.choose_boundary; it relies on
> socket.gethostbyname returning a sensible result for your machine.
> But sometimes it fails:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-October/232722.html
> It may be a bug in Python, or in the sockets implementation, or
> somewhere. Anyway, choose_boundary() should be robust enough to catch
> the possible exception and act accordingly, I think.
>
> In the meantime, you may put this near the top of your script:
>
> mimetools._prefix = "some-random-string-you-like"
>
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina
> Softlab SRL
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