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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:04 PM, =CD=DF=EA=EF=F2 <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> How come all these daysthe followinf line work as expected:
>
>
> host =3D socket.gethostbyaddr( ipval ) [0]
>
> and only just today just happened to output:

Maybe the ipval is different. Maybe something else is causing the
error. I wonder how, in Python, you would find out which one it is?
Wouldn't it be nice if Python had a function - statement in Python 2 -
that told you what something was.

ChrisA