[Python-Dev] More socket questions

[Guido van Rossum]

> Since somebody mention inet_addr, here's something else that I can attempt 
> to fix if we agree on it.
> 
> In python 2.2.2:
> 
> socket.inet_aton("255.255.255.255")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> socket.error: illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton

Check out Python 2.3, it's been fixed there.

Unfortunately Windows only has inet_addr(), so it's still broken
there.

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