[Python-Dev] test_multiprocessing:test_listener_client flakiness

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> The server component *is* listening to localhost by default. The
>> client in the code I pasted has the server's .address attribute passed
>> into it to tell the client where to connect to.
>
> So I take it that the .address attribute is different from "localhost",
> but why? Is there any point in trying to be clever here?

No, it is *not* different than localhost - it *is* localhost as that
is the object.address of the server.