[Tutor] Exception Handling

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/10/15 23:57, Nym City via Tutor wrote:

> socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed
...
> for name in ListOfHostNames:
>      try:
>          ResolveHostname = socket.gethostbyname(name)
>          print(ResolveHostname)
>          newFile.write(ResolveHostname + "\n")
>          print(ResolveHostname)
>      except socket.herror as e:
>          newFile.write("No resolution available for %s" % (name) + "\n")

You are catching herror but your code is resulting in gaierror.

Add socket.gaierror to your except line.

     except (socket.herror, socket.gaierror):
         newFile.write("No resolution available for %s" % (name) + "\n")

see if that works

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