"import socket" error

[akbarhome@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am following this tutorial

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=dw-linux-pysocks&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-lnxw07PythonSockets

( free reg. req. )

The article told me to do this:

[camus]$ python
Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 11:25:45)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostb yname('www.ibm. com')[/color][/color][/color]
'129.42.19.99'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

When I try it, I get this error:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import socket[/color][/color][/color]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 1, in ?
# Wrapper module for _socket, providing some additional facilities
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py ", line 274, in ?
class TCPServer(BaseS erver):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py ", line 317, in TCPServer
address_family = socket.AF_INET
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]


Why? Thank you.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: &quot;import socket&quot; error

akbarhome@gmail .com wrote:
[color=blue]
> I am following this tutorial
>[/color]
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webap...7PythonSockets[color=blue]
> ( free reg. req. )
>
> The article told me to do this:
>
> [camus]$ python
> Python 2.4 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 11:25:45)
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
> information.[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> import socket
> >>> socket.gethostb yname('www.ibm. com')[/color][/color]
> '129.42.19.99'[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>
> When I try it, I get this error:[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> import socket[/color][/color]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 1, in ?
> # Wrapper module for _socket, providing some additional facilities
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py ", line 274, in ?
> class TCPServer(BaseS erver):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/SocketServer.py ", line 317, in TCPServer
> address_family = socket.AF_INET
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>
> Why? Thank you.[/color]

your Python installation is broken. what OS are you using?

</F>

[akbar]

Re: &quot;import socket&quot; error

Fedora Core 4.