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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib/request.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py index 1de6aae..84f177c 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib/request.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py @@ -2259,7 +2259,10 @@ def thishost(): """Return the IP addresses of the current host.""" global _thishost if _thishost is None: - _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]) + try: + _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]) + except socket.gaierror: + _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex('localhost')[2]) return _thishost _ftperrors = None |