Trouble running app engine python sdk

Question

I have downloaded google_appengine_1.7.3.zip and followed the guidelines given and made the necessary changes to .bashrc as given here. Here are my main.py and app.yaml which lie in a folder named udacity.

On entering the following in my terminal,

python google_appengine/dev_appserver.py --use_sqlite --port=1234 genprojects/udacity/

I get the following message I am using Ubuntu 11.10. Please help!

Answer 1

There was no ip that corresponed to localhost in my file /etc/hosts. So it failed to get the IP from domain name - localhost Add the following line to the file /etc/hosts

127.0.0.2   localhost

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