[Python-Dev] Availability of IPv6 support in the socket module

[DrKJam]

Are there any current plans for 2.7/3.1 to have inet_pton() and inet_ntop()
made available via the socket module?

Not sure how feasible or difficult doing this would be across all support
Python platforms but it would certainly be useful, especially now there is
talk about adding IPv4/IPv6 address manipulation support to the standard
library (http://bugs.python.org/issue3959).

This would provide handy C-level speed ups to IPv6 operations on
interpreters where the socket module is available. Google App Engine's
Python interpreter is one place where I believe inet_ntoa/aton and possibly
inet_ntop/pton are not and will not be made available (by design). In such
cases, a library could easily resort to ubiquitous (slightly slower)
pure-Python fallbacks.

Also, does anyone have a feeling for how available thet AF_INET6 constant is
is across all Python's many supported platforms?

Thanks,

David Moss
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