"getaddrinfo failed", what does that mean?

Question

  File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 224, in meth     return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)   gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed 

Getting this error when launching the hello world sample from here:

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

Answer 1

It most likely means the hostname can't be resolved.

import socket socket.getaddrinfo('localhost', 8080) 

If it doesn't work there, it's not going to work in the Bottle example. You can try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost' in case that's the problem.