Issue #1008086: Fixes socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even
on LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 66664b4..5c906d7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -388,6 +388,14 @@
# Check that setting it to an invalid type raises TypeError
self.assertRaises(TypeError, socket.setdefaulttimeout, "spam")
+ def testIPv4_inet_aton_fourbytes(self):
+ if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_aton'):
+ return # No inet_aton, nothing to check
+ # Test that issue1008086 and issue767150 are fixed.
+ # It must return 4 bytes.
+ self.assertEquals('\x00'*4, socket.inet_aton('0.0.0.0'))
+ self.assertEquals('\xff'*4, socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255'))
+
def testIPv4toString(self):
if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_pton'):
return # No inet_pton() on this platform