[Python-Dev] New test failure, test_socket, WinXP (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 6 05:27:01 CEST 2004

Fails every time, in release and debug builds:

test testsocket failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\testsocket.py", line 311, in testGetServBy eq(socket.getservbyport(port2), service) AssertionError: 'http' != 'www'

Sounds like the Windows equivalent (on your box) of /etc/services is bogus. What does the line for 80/tcp look like in \Wimdows\system32\drivers\etc\services ? (Well, that's where it is on my XP box. Who knows where it is on yours.)

On my box it says approximately:

http 80/tcp www www-http #world wide web

This suggests that it should return "http", not "www" -- unless the implementaton picks the first alias instead of the official service name. (Can't test this yet because I haven't built the latest 2.4 and apparently this is a very recent addition to the socket module.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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