IPv6 question

[John Burton]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Erno Kuusela wrote:
> 
>> you can control this using the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, like so:
>>
>>   s.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IPV6, socket.IPV6_V6ONLY, 0)
>>
>> unfortunately python 2.3.3 doesn't yet make that constant available
>> though it is fixed in cvs. you could glean the value from the headers.
>>
>> the default setting has been in flux on various platforms recently,
>> all the more reason to want to always set it explicitly...
> 
> 
> I think the OP would prefer to have a single socket for both protocol
> types, in which case he should set it to 1 on windows, right?

Well it's not idea that different platforms work differently here 
although it's easy enough to work around that. I'll try the setsockopt 
and see if I can use that.
Thanks for the replies everyone.