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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2008-09-03 19:59:48 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 3686.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20080903195948-24iha6kjan1b0pc9
Document the difference in get_host_name, per Robert's request.

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def get_host_name():
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    """Return the current unicode host name"""
 
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    """Return the current unicode host name.
 
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    This is meant to be used in place of socket.gethostname() because that
 
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    behaves inconsistently on different platforms.
 
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    """
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    if sys.platform == "win32":
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        import win32utils
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        return win32utils.get_host_name()