"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.