AF_INET error
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Tue Apr 11 15:26:52 EDT 2000
Soundwave wrote:
> On www.python.org is a HOWTO guide for creating sockets, i'll give an
> example from what is said in the guide
>
> This is the first example
>
> import socket
> #create an INET, STREAMing socket
> s = socket.socket(
> socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> #now connect to the web server on port 80
> # - the normal http port
> s.connect("www.mcmillan-inc.com", 80)
>
> when I run this code, I get the following output
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "C:\PROGRA~1\PYTHON\TOOLS\IDLE\ScriptBinding.py", line 131, in
> run_module_event
> execfile(filename, mod.__dict__)
> File "C:/Program Files/Python/socket.py", line 3, in ?
> s = socket.socket(
> AttributeError: AF_INET
It seems you have a module named socket.py which is being
imported instead of the standard one (which would be
Lib/socket.py).
- Gordon
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