How to handle errors?

[John Gordon]

In <8500044a-c8d1-43ad-91d9-e836d52bd3f0 at googlegroups.com> SS <sami.strat at gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to be able to handle that error a bit better.  Any ideas?

Wrap the socket.gethostbyname() call in a try/except block.

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