[Bug 378793] Re: SystemError when looking for some unknown IP addresses

[Scott Kitterman]

This is fixed in all supported releases.

** Changed in: python-geoip (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  SystemError when looking for some unknown IP addresses

Status in python-geoip package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: python-geoip

  When trying to locate any of these (and more) IP addresses:

  188.129.154.21
  99.56.83.65
  24.49.164.246
  24.49.162.115
  173.45.97.18
  99.56.26.183

  The library returns this exception:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "tester.py", line 16, in <module>
      locator.record_by_addr('99.56.26.183')
  SystemError: error return without exception set

  Which is hardly an intended behavior and instead a bug. The problem is
  not there with the latest 1.2.4 version of this library (or at least
  the current source version not packaged in ubuntu).

  Note that the IP addresses are not a problem per-se, it's just the the
  library should return None if it can't locate the address instead of
  raising that SystemError. If you use a different version of the
  GeoIPLite database you probably will have different IP addresses that
  raise this problem.

  Running this small script recreates the problem for me:

  import sys
  import GeoIP as geoip

  location_file = sys.argv[1]

  locator = geoip.open(location_file,
                       geoip.GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE)

  ips = ['188.129.154.21',
         '99.56.83.65',
         '24.49.164.246',
         '24.49.162.115',
         '173.45.97.18',
         '99.56.26.183']

  for ip in ips:
      locator.record_by_addr(ip)

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