commit db8ed1517f1c9008d4fd09e73967ecb75eeb2b01
author Ka-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca> Fri Mar 02 05:58:17 2001 +0000
committer Ka-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca> Fri Mar 02 05:58:17 2001 +0000
tree 10b82241b7a5e640cd732cfeaa802aabd656d737
parent 228d80736c39e41a6b46dad211df0ba871b0c8f8

Use '127.0.0.1' only on Mac; for other, sane platforms, use 'localhost'.

Lib/pydoc.py

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 2eef833..607458b 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1142,8 +1142,9 @@
 
     class DocServer(BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
         def __init__(self, port, callback):
-            self.address = ('127.0.0.1', port)
-            self.url = 'http://127.0.0.1:%d/' % port
+            host = (sys.platform == 'mac') and '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost'
+            self.address = (host, port)
+            self.url = 'http://%s:%d/' % (host, port)
             self.callback = callback
             self.base.__init__(self, self.address, self.handler)