Issue #1008086: Fixes socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even

on LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 66664b44ed..5c906d776a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -388,6 +388,14 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # Check that setting it to an invalid type raises TypeError
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, socket.setdefaulttimeout, "spam")
 
+    def testIPv4_inet_aton_fourbytes(self):
+        if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_aton'):
+            return  # No inet_aton, nothing to check
+        # Test that issue1008086 and issue767150 are fixed.
+        # It must return 4 bytes.
+        self.assertEquals('\x00'*4, socket.inet_aton('0.0.0.0'))
+        self.assertEquals('\xff'*4, socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255'))
+
     def testIPv4toString(self):
         if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_pton'):
             return # No inet_pton() on this platform