[Patches] [Patch #101151] expose public get_fqdn function in smtplib.py

Peter Schneider-Kamp nowonder@nowonder.de
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:51:14 +0000


Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:58:35PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> >   Is there some reason we don't go ahead and change socket to _socket?
> > As Barry rightly pointed out, that's already how it is for some
> > (popular) platforms.
> 
> Well, I didn't do it myself (or upload it as a patch, rather) for a very
> simple reason: I don't know how to do it without breaking stuff :) where
> would socket.py go, that it would be available to all systems that currently
> have socketmodule.so (or builtin socketmodule) without interfering with
> systems that alrady have a socket.py in their own directory. Too much work
> for me to figure out -> I didn't do it, and won't, until someone tells me to
> :-)

The same applies for me. If somebody tells me how to do it, I am more
than willing to do it.

BTW: I'd like to be on patches@python.org - is that possible?

Peter
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