Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > New submission from Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > > Reportedly, platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on > Windows, see http://www.pasteall.org/16215 > > I think it is incorrect that _node uses socket.gethostname on Windows. > uname() should return the local hostname (i.e. the one that the system itself > believes to have), independent of the network configuration or DNS. > > Therefore, I think it should return the COMPUTERNAME environment variable, or > the result of the GetComputerName() API.
There are two issues here: 1. socket.gethostname() shouldn't raise an error on Windows, but return the Unicode host name 2. COMPUTERNAME returns an uppercase version of the host name (which we could lowercase to stay b/w compatible), however I'm not sure whether this is the same as the socket.gethostname() or the NETBIOS name and I'm also not sure whether this is always set. This link suggests that it's using the NetBIOS name: http://www.scriptlogic.com/support/CustomScripts/environmentVariableReference.html The official Microsoft page is unclear about this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb490954.aspx Could someone please check whether using the environment variable COMPUTERNAME would work in the described case ? What we could do is use the socket.gethostname() and fall back to COMPUTERNAME in case of decoding problems. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ ---------- nosy: +lemburg title: platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on Windows -> platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on Windows _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10097> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
