python module for nslookup

Question

Is there a python-module that\'s doing the same stuff as nslookup does? I am planning to use nslookup on digging some information regarding the domain of a URL to be scrappe

Answer 1

You need to use DNSPython

import dns.resolver

answers = dns.resolver.query('dnspython.org', 'MX')
for rdata in answers:
    print 'Host', rdata.exchange, 'has preference', rdata.preference