Order of addresses returned by socket.gethostbyname_ex()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:37 pm Tomas Lidén wrote:

> In what order are the addresses returned by socket.gethostbyname_ex()?
> 
> We know that gethostbyname() is indeterministic but hope that
> gethostbyname_ex() has a specified order.

Did you want a particular order, or just any deterministic order?

Have you considered sorting the addresses yourself?



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Steven