commit eed30d830b26d325d04630cd5ee3af22f4d234da
author Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> Thu May 14 21:22:08 2009 +0000
committer Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> Thu May 14 21:22:08 2009 +0000
tree db4d84a79eb7f98e844cc85f21f0c1126f7c148b
parent cbb4f9ef58ec7673f7c64b16496879b914b0972a

Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.

(Unfortunately, nntplib doesn't have a test suite)

Lib/nntplib.py

diff --git a/Lib/nntplib.py b/Lib/nntplib.py
index cc51d1d..f519b06 100644
--- a/Lib/nntplib.py
+++ b/Lib/nntplib.py
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@
         """
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
-        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-        self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
+        self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port))
         self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb')
         self.debugging = 0
         self.welcome = self.getresp()