"pygeoip __init__.py _gethostbyname" Error.

[BhaiX]

Hello,

I hope you guys know there is a python IRC bot Willie, To make his .ip command work we need pygeoip, I've installed it and its working but when I type.

@Bhai .ip Bhai
gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known (file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygeoip/init.py", line 394, in _gethostbyname)

This Error, Any way to fix it?

[tiwilliam]

Since Bhai isn't a valid hostname our underlying socket library will complain. pygeoip won't catch and re-raise this error so if you want a nicer presentation you'll have to catch this in Willie.