[issue42495] socket.gethostbyaddr raises error if invalid unicode in hosts

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

I cannot reproduce the issue on Linux:

# echo "127.0.0.2 xn-9q8h" >> /etc/hosts
# python3.8
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.2")
('xn-9q8h', [], ['127.0.0.2'])

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nosy: +christian.heimes
versions:  -Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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