pythonpython-3.xwhois

Module whois not working in Python 3 even after importing it


Please Check the following output i get after installing and import whois module can someone help with this issue ?

Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
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>>> import whois
>>> domain = whois.query('www.google.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/whois/__init__.py", line 50, in query
    pd = do_parse(do_query(d, force, cache_file, slow_down, ignore_returncode), tld)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/whois/_1_query.py", line 44, in do_query
    _do_whois_query(dl, ignore_returncode),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/whois/_1_query.py", line 58, in _do_whois_query
    p = subprocess.Popen(['whois', '.'.join(dl)], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1344, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'whois': 'whois'
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Solution

  • First check if you can whois lookup manually by this command whois google.com, if there is any error, you will have to install whois first using sudo apt-get install whois