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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:47:41 -0400

The basic question is: should Python automatically recognize numeric addresses, or should the application have a way to indicate a numeric address?

It should be automatically recognized. Python has always done this (until 2.1 at least). I don't think there is any ambiguity; AFAIK it's not possible to put something in the DNS so that an all-numeric address gets remapped (that would be a nasty security problem waiting to happen).

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