AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getaddrinfo'

[Akume]

any help would be appreciated.
can't figure out why i'm getting this error.


here's the code
service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
service.email = username
service.password = password
service.source = CLIENT_ID
service.developer_key = DEVELOPER_KEY
service.client_id = CLIENT_ID

feed = service.GetMostRecentVideoFeed()


stack trace

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/
__init__.py", line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/akume/1.2/main.py", line 33, in get
feed = service.GetMostRecentVideoFeed()
File "/base/data/home/apps/akume/1.2/gdata/youtube/service.py", line
515, in GetMostRecentVideoFeed
return self.GetYouTubeVideoFeed(YOUTUBE_STANDARD_MOST_RECENT_URI)
File "/base/data/home/apps/akume/1.2/gdata/youtube/service.py", line
155, in GetYouTubeVideoFeed
return self.Get(uri,
converter=gdata.youtube.YouTubeVideoFeedFromString)
File "/base/data/home/apps/akume/1.2/gdata/service.py", line 513, in
Get
extra_headers=extra_headers)
File "/base/data/home/apps/akume/1.2/atom/service.py", line 316, in
HttpRequest
connection.endheaders()
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 860, in
endheaders
self._send_output()
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 732, in
_send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 699, in send
self.connect()
File "/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 666, in
connect
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, 0,
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getaddrinfo'

[Akume]

forgot to include the libraries

import os
import wsgiref.handlers

import atom
import socket

import gdata.youtube
import gdata.youtube.service

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

[Prateek Malhotra]

Hey, I'm getting this error as well, here's my code:

import os
import wsgiref.handlers

import atom
import socket

import gdata.youtube
import gdata.youtube.service

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
query = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeVideoQuery()
query.vq = 'Funny Test'
query.orderby = 'viewCount'
query.max_results = 50
feed = yt_service.YouTubeQuery(query)

It works fine if i run this code outside of the AppEngine, (minus the
appengine specific imports), any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Prateek

[ryan]

hi! you're seeing this error because the socket module is disabled in
app engine. details:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/sandbox.html
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/purepython.html

you'll have to do a little extra setup to tell the gdata library to
use urlfetch instead of httlib. details:

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/04/release-hounds-support-for-app-engine.html
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/b7399a91c9525c97