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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:44:56+00:00

I try to get whois in python. I use this http://code.google.com/p/pywhois/ but it run

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I try to get whois in python. I use this
http://code.google.com/p/pywhois/
but it run only in linux. Is it posible to run it on windows? currently i get errors (because internal linux command whois used)

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  1. Editorial Team

    On Windows just like on Linux, pywhois gives an error if the whois program is not installed. You could try this whois, for example.

    The reason, of course, is in pywhois/init.py, line 11:

    r = subprocess.Popen(['whois', domain], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

    Clearly this line needs to run some existing, installed whois command-line program (which accepts the domain to look up as a commandline argument), whatever OS it’s running on.

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