Gary Chambers <gwch...@gwcmail.com> writes: > Given the following Perl script:
[41 lines of Perl removed] Sorry, I'm lucky enough to be able to completely ignore Perl. > Will someone please provide some insight on how to accomplish that task in > Python? >From what I understood in the comments of your script, here is a possible python scriptlet: import sys import socket canon,aliases,ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyname_ex(sys.argv[1]) print canon,",".join(aliases),",".join(ipaddrs) See also getaddrinfo(). Note that a canonical name may have several ip addresses (try with www.google.com if you doubt). (BTW, this is a direct interface to gethostbyname(), and there is no real need to use a tool and parse its output.) > I am unable to continually (i.e. it stops after displaying a single > line) loop through the output while testing for the matches on the two > regular expressions. Thank you. It is hard to guess what you've tried. See the subprocess package documentation. -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
