[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-769023 ] No IPv6 support in windows binary

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Bugs item #769023, was opened at 2003-07-10 12:27
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andreas Bergstrøm (andreasb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: No IPv6 support in windows binary

Initial Comment:
I tried Python 2.2.3 on a Windows XP box with IPv6 enabled, but quickly found out that the socket module under windows was without IPv6 support whatsoever. Things such as socket.AF_INET6 was missing. Is this intentionally or a bug?

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-07-10 22:50

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It is intentional. To build software with IPv6 support, you
need a recent Windows SDK, e.g. the one that comes with VC7.
As Python is going to be built with VC6 for an foreseeable
future (including Python 2.3), you won't get IPv6 support.

If you really need that feature, you have to rebuild Python
from the source. Closing it as "won't fix".

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2003-07-10 16:04

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Unassigned (I don't anything about IPv6).

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