R. David Murray added the comment: That sounds reasonable. However, on my box that has an IPv6 address configured on lo, I get the same result with or without that flag:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:48000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:48000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3991442 (3.8 MiB) TX bytes:3991442 (3.8 MiB) Python 2.7.3 (default, Jun 19 2012, 16:12:47) [GCC 4.5.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import socket >>> socket.getaddrinfo('localhost', 80, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0) [(2, 1, 6, '', ('127.0.0.1', 80))] >>> socket.getaddrinfo('localhost', 80, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, >>> socket.AI_ADDRCONFIG) [(2, 1, 6, '', ('127.0.0.1', 80))] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15617> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com