[Python-Dev] _socket efficiencies ideas (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:44:51 -0500 

Martin> It turns out that Python doesn't need to 100% detect numeric
Martin> addresses, as long as it would not classify addresses as numeric
Martin> which aren't.  Perhaps it is even possible to leave the "is
Martin> numeric" test to the implementation of getaddrinfo, i.e. calling
Martin> it twice (try numeric first, then try resolving the name)?

Can a top-level domain be all digits? If not, why not assume numeric if re.search(r".\d+$", addr) is not None?

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