urllib/urllib2 support for specifying ip address

[Robin Becker]

On 19/06/2014 13:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> I can use python >= 3.3 if required.
>
> The main reason I ask is in case something's changed. Basically, what
> I did was go to my Python 2 installation (which happens to be 2.7.3,
> because that's what Debian Wheezy ships with - not sure why it hasn't
> been updated beyond that), pull up urllib2.py, and step through
> manually, seeing where the hostname gets turned into an IP address.
> Hence, this code:
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in practice this approach worked well with urllib in python27.
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Robin Becker