Bug #1250170, Patch #1462230: handle socket.gethostname()
failures gracefully
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 5710444..7e0bbf0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -349,13 +349,19 @@
TESTFN = test_support.TESTFN
urlpath = sanepathname2url(os.path.abspath(TESTFN))
towrite = "hello, world\n"
- for url in [
+ urls = [
"file://localhost%s" % urlpath,
"file://%s" % urlpath,
"file://%s%s" % (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'), urlpath),
- "file://%s%s" % (socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()),
- urlpath),
- ]:
+ ]
+ try:
+ localaddr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
+ except socket.gaierror:
+ localaddr = ''
+ if localaddr:
+ urls.append("file://%s%s" % (localaddr, urlpath))
+
+ for url in urls:
f = open(TESTFN, "wb")
try:
try: