Checking support for network connections from Python client to IPv6 server

[Markus Elfring]

> "Handled transparently" means that an ipv6 server can handle connections
> from ipv4 clients without doing anything special.

It is nice if this conversion is working.


> They just appear to come from a specific IPv6 address range.

I got expected connections by my small script “socket-send_test_data1.tcl”.


>> Under which circumstances will the Python programming interfaces
>> support the direct usage of the identification “::1”?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. They do.

How would like to explain the error message “socket.gaierror: [Errno -9]
Address family for hostname not supported” on my Linux test system then?

Regards,
Markus