On 10 Ιαν, 00:35, Dominic Binks <dbi...@codeaurora.org> wrote: > On 1/9/2012 2:19 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: > > > Can you please explain me what the [0] in host = > > socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] )[0] does at the end? > > > Why not just host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) > > instead? what is the need of [0] ? > > The address database can have multiple names for the same IP address so > gethostbyaddr returns a list - [0] being the first item in the list (and > usually considered the canonical name)
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