Santoso Wijaya added the comment: Attaching patch to trim leading and trailing whitespaces prior to processing.
Incidentally, this also means: >>> socket.gethostbyname('') '0.0.0.0' >>> socket.gethostbyname(' ') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> socket.gaierror: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname But I'm not sure if we're okay with changing that semantics, so I left it be in this patch. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27537/gethostbyname_whitespace.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16201> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com