[Django]-Error when using pywhois

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easy_install pywhois

installs a different tool – it is a CLI tool – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywhois.
To install the desired pywhois python lib, check it out from googlecode(hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pywhois/) or github (git clone https://github.com/unpluggd/pywhois.git)

and from the source dir run

python setup.py install
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The project pywhois is moved to Bitbucket, here.

To install pywhois,

pip install python-whois

To use pywhois (import whois), here is an example.

import whois            
#check if a domain name is registered or not
try :
    w = whois.whois(url)
except (whois.parser.PywhoisError):  #NOT FOUND
    print(url)   #unregistered domain names, it is not very accurate.

A kind reminder that using pywhois is not very accurate. For more info, you can refer this question.

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