[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

[Guido van Rossum]

> BTW, test_socket.py passes just fine for me.  hostname(1) returns
> "freewill.local." (yes, trailing dot).
> 
> The difference may be that I used Netinfo Manager to add hostname
> entries for all my local machines, including the MacOSX machine I ran
> the tests on.  My Netinfo-fu is pretty meager so I don't know if I did
> it completely right, but it seems to work for me.

That fixed it for me too.

I still think the test should be skipped rather than fail when
gethostbyname() raises an error.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)