Perhaps you mean to use the function socket.gethostbyname instead.
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyaddr("www.google.ca")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
socket.herror: (1, 'Unknown host')
>>> socket.gethostbyname("www.google.ca")
'64.233.167.147'Jeff
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