Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > There are two issues here:
There are two issues, but not here :-) > 1. socket.gethostname() shouldn't raise an error on Windows, but > return the Unicode host name This is issue 9377, please keep that out of this issue. > Could someone please check whether using the environment > variable COMPUTERNAME would work in the described case ? No - I didn't personally encounter the problem. > What we could do is use the socket.gethostname() and fall back > to COMPUTERNAME in case of decoding problems. I think using socket.gethostname() is conceptually wrong: the what uname returns is *not* the name the machine has in DNS, but what is configured in the kernel. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
