["python","dns"]
How can I do DNS lookups in Python, including referring to /etc/hosts?

dnspython will do my DNS lookups very nicely, but it entirely ignores the contents of /etc/hosts. Is there a python library call which will do the right thing? ie check first in etc/hosts, and only fall back to DNS lookups otherwise?
I'm not really sure if you want to do DNS lookups yourself or if you just want a host's ip. In case you want the latter, /!\ socket.gethostbyname is deprecated, prefer socket.getaddrinfo from man gethostbyname: The gethostbyname*(), gethostbyaddr*(), [...] functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), import socket print(socket.gethostbyname('localhost')) # result from hosts file print(socket.gethostbyname('google.com')) # your os sends out a dns query