How can I do DNS lookups in Python, including referring to /etc/hosts?

Question

dnspython will do my DNS lookups very nicely, but it entirely ignores the contents of /etc/hosts.

Is there a python library call which will do the right

Answer 1

list( map( lambda x: x[4][0], socket.getaddrinfo( \
     'www.example.com.',22,type=socket.SOCK_STREAM)))

gives you a list of the addresses for www.example.com. (ipv4 and ipv6)