Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > 2. COMPUTERNAME returns an uppercase version of the host name (which we > could lowercase to stay b/w compatible), however I'm not sure > whether this is the same as the socket.gethostname() or the > NETBIOS name and I'm also not sure whether this is always set. > > This link suggests that it's using the NetBIOS name: > > http://www.scriptlogic.com/support/CustomScripts/environmentVariableReference.html > > The official Microsoft page is unclear about this: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb490954.aspx
More evidence that the NetBIOS name is used: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368009(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724295(v=VS.85).aspx One problem with this approach is that changes to the NetBIOS name are not seen by those APIs and variables, e.g. if the machine get's an update via DHCP. The other is that NetBIOS itself is being phased out in favor of DNS names - which socket.gethostname() returns, so we'd be replacing a new technology with an old one. http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2008/12/16/netbios-browsing-and-windows-server-2008-x64-server-core.aspx BTW: Why doesn't socket.gethostname() use GetComputerNameEx() which does support Unicode ? See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724301(v=VS.85).aspx ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10097> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
