more getaddrinfo weirdness

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:42:59AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> 
> ahh woopsy ;)
> i Was looking under 'getaddrinfo' and not up the top
> 
> How can i handle easily unpacking these then without a case statement or 
> somethign similar to distinguish v4/v6 addresses
> 

  IPv6 isn't compatible with IPv4.  This is a design flaw in IPv6 and not
Python's fault.  Generally, your network code needs to know if it is using
IPv4 or IPv6.  If you really think you can ignore these additional fields,
it is easy to do as...

    address, port = addrinfo[:2]

  Jp

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