[issue10097] platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on Windows
Martin v. Löwis
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Oct 14 19:02:04 CEST 2010
Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> There are two issues here:
There are two issues, but not here :-)
> 1. socket.gethostname() shouldn't raise an error on Windows, but
> return the Unicode host name
This is issue 9377, please keep that out of this issue.
> Could someone please check whether using the environment
> variable COMPUTERNAME would work in the described case ?
No - I didn't personally encounter the problem.
> What we could do is use the socket.gethostname() and fall back
> to COMPUTERNAME in case of decoding problems.
I think using socket.gethostname() is conceptually wrong: the
what uname returns is *not* the name the machine has in DNS,
but what is configured in the kernel.
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