Re: Getting fully qualified name

Ron Forrester (rjf@aurora.pcg.com)
Mon, 05 Sep 1994 10:32:48 -0700

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On 03 Sep 1994 05:17:30 GMT, "Eric Jean Francois Daniel" <ejd0165@tamsun.tamu.edu> wrote:
> Sam wrote:
>
> >I need to get the full qualified name of the host on which a Python program
> >is running. How can I get it ? gethostname() returns 'khamsin' instead
> >of 'khamsin.enst.fr' (yeah, I'm on a Sun :( )
> >
> > Sam
>
> I'm afraid that the problem comes from your environment, as sys.gethostname()
> is merely an interface to the gethostname() system call.
> And as I tried it on my machine (also Sun4), I got tamsun.tamu.edu
> So I don't think the solution is given by Python.

Doesn't gethostname() come from socket?

rjf

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