Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I don't see how a name resolution API returning non-ASCII bytes
> would indicate an error.

It's in violation of RFC 952 (slightly relaxed by RFC 1123).

> But to be more explicit, that's like saying "if it hurts, get
> your sysadmin to reconfigure the company network".

Which I consider perfectly reasonable. The sysadmin should have
known (and, in practice, *always* knows) not to do that in the first
place (the larger the company, the more cautious the sysadmin).

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title: socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain names -> 
socket,  PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain names

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