On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Ronald van Zantvoort <the.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > mystring is already an IP address, sorry for not mentioning that. > The point is that ternary if; I've been scouring around the internet and > there's a million different variations on the same idea. > I'm completely flabberghasted it's not a simple property within the object > though, e.g. ip.sock_family. > > Was this a deliberate decision by the Python devs or can I try an RFE for > that?
You could ask. At very worst, you'll find someone explain to you why it shouldn't be done. I suggest using the python-ideas mailing list; people there are usually reasonably friendly, though occasionally you find a caustic response to a dumb idea like "Python should use braces for indentation" :) >> But you may find it convenient to use a dedicated function for >> establishing a connection, which could look up an AAAA or A record for >> a name, then proceed through all addresses, attempting connections in >> turn. I'm fairly sure one exists in Python, but I can't right now >> remember the name. >> > Well you've already got socket.create_connection(), which (I think) does > perform that lookup. Yeah, I went looking for it and came across that, but wasn't sure if that was it. Now I look more closely (ie: look at the actual source code), I see that it probably is the function I was thinking of. Might need a docs patch to make it clear that this iterates over getaddrinfo() and attempts them all in succession. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
