From 3bf798e7a4413a89aff41ae98461182bf9709005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:47:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Removed useless try/except block.

---
 src/utils.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/utils.py b/src/utils.py
index 4da14af10..b2e99c2f2 100755
--- a/src/utils.py
+++ b/src/utils.py
@@ -562,10 +562,7 @@ def getSocket(host):
     """Returns a socket of the correct AF_INET type (v4 or v6) in order to
     communicate with host.
     """
-    try:
-        host = socket.gethostbyname(host)
-    except socket.error:
-        raise
+    host = socket.gethostbyname(host)
     if isIP(host):
         return socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
     elif isIPV6(host):