Senthil Kumaran added the comment: sys.platform is darwin since OS X 10.5. I am not sure when it's value was 'mac', So effectively the host was localhost on mac systems.
Directly setting the host value to localhost on all platforms may be right thing to do. Here is a patch with tests. ---------- assignee: -> orsenthil Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36631/issue22421.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22421> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com