From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:22:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1193
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eed30d830b26d325d04630cd5ee3af22f4d234da;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.

(Unfortunately, nntplib doesn't have a test suite)
---

diff --git a/Lib/nntplib.py b/Lib/nntplib.py
index cc51d1da8225..f519b06e55b0 100644
--- a/Lib/nntplib.py
+++ b/Lib/nntplib.py
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ class NNTP:
         """
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
-        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-        self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
+        self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port))
         self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb')
         self.debugging = 0
         self.welcome = self.getresp()
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 5cae037fac4b..abcad74cb86c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ Doug Moen
 The Dragon De Monsyne
 Skip Montanaro
 Paul Moore
+Derek Morr
 James A Morrison
 Sjoerd Mullender
 Sape Mullender
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5d7a81ea5c62..58f381b45d4e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
+
 - Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
   test_get_outputs in Distutils.