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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Referrer key missing form os.environ dictionary?
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:30:59 +0000 (UTC)
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In <l1uqna$qi5$2@dont-email.me> =?UTF-8?B?zp3Or866zr/Pgg==?= <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> writes:

> But one other problem appeared too:

> nikos@superhost.gr [~/www/cgi-bin]# python metrites.py
>    File "metrites.py", line 27
>      host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] )[0] or 
> 'UnKnown Host'
>         ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

> i dont see anything wrong with that line, and the carret is actually 
> pointing to the "host".

Your post has the code broken up into two separate lines.  Is that how
the code actually appears?  If so, then that's the problem.  You can't
arbitrarily break a statement into separate lines.

If not, then you'll have to post more of the code; the problem isn't on
this line.

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