"import socket" error

[akbarhome]

Hi,

I am following this tutorial
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webap...7PythonSockets
( free reg. req. )

The article told me to do this:

[camus]$ python
Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 11:25:45)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.

import socket
socket.gethostbyname('www.ibm.com') '129.42.19.99'
When I try it, I get this error: import socket Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 1, in ?
# Wrapper module for _socket, providing some additional facilities
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 274, in ?
class TCPServer(BaseServer):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 317, in TCPServer
address_family = socket.AF_INET
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'

Why? Thank you.

[Fredrik Lundh]

ak*******@gmail.com wrote:

I am following this tutorial
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webap...7PythonSockets ( free reg. req. )

The article told me to do this:

[camus]$ python
Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 11:25:45)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.

import socket
socket.gethostbyname('www.ibm.com') '129.42.19.99'
When I try it, I get this error: import socket Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 1, in ?
# Wrapper module for _socket, providing some additional facilities
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 274, in ?
class TCPServer(BaseServer):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py", line 317, in TCPServer
address_family = socket.AF_INET
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'

Why? Thank you.

your Python installation is broken. what OS are you using?

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[akbar]

Fedora Core 4.