Package

This package contains all the modules utilised by the python-hosts library.

hosts: Contains the Hosts and HostsEntry classes that represent instances of a

hosts file, and it’s individual lines/entries

utils: Contains helper functions to check the available operations on a hosts

file and the validity of a hosts file entry

exception: Contains the custom exceptions that are raised in the event of an

error in processing a hosts file and its entries

Submodules

• python_hosts.hosts module
  • Hosts
    • Hosts.add()
    • Hosts.count()
    • Hosts.determine_hosts_path()
    • Hosts.entries
    • Hosts.exists()
    • Hosts.find_all_matching()
    • Hosts.get_hosts_by_url()
    • Hosts.import_file()
    • Hosts.import_url()
    • Hosts.path
    • Hosts.populate_entries()
    • Hosts.remove_all_matching()
    • Hosts.write()
  • HostsEntry
    • HostsEntry.address
    • HostsEntry.comment
    • HostsEntry.entry_type
    • HostsEntry.get_entry_type()
    • HostsEntry.is_real_entry()
    • HostsEntry.names
    • HostsEntry.str_to_hostentry()
• python_hosts.utils module
  • dedupe_list()
  • is_ipv4()
  • is_ipv6()
  • is_readable()
  • valid_hostnames()
• python_hosts.exception module
  • hosts.exceptions
  • HostsEntryException
  • HostsException
  • InvalidComment
  • InvalidIPv4Address
  • InvalidIPv6Address
  • UnableToWriteHosts