Thank you (Cameron and Alan) for your review and feedback. This solved the
issue perfectly!
Thank you.
On Friday, October 2, 2015 11:49 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
wrote:
On 03Oct2015 00:51, ALAN GAULD <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>On 02/10/15 23:57, Nym City via Tutor wrote:
>>socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed
>...
>>for name in ListOfHostNames:
>> try:
>> ResolveHostname = socket.gethostbyname(name)
>> print(ResolveHostname)
>> newFile.write(ResolveHostname + "\n")
>> print(ResolveHostname)
>> except socket.herror as e:
>> newFile.write("No resolution available for %s" % (name) + "\n")
>
>You are catching herror but your code is resulting in gaierror.
>
>Add socket.gaierror to your except line.
>
> except (socket.herror, socket.gaierror):
> newFile.write("No resolution available for %s" % (name) + "\n")
>
>see if that works
Just a followon remark: always try to print the exception when you're not
certain of what it will be or what to do with it. So I'd augument Alan's code
like this:
except (socket.herror, socket.gaierror) as e:
newFile.write("No resolution available for %s: %s" % (name, e) + "\n")
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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