[issue7834] socket.connect() no longer works with AF_BLUETOOTH L2CAP sockets

[Yaniv Aknin]

Yaniv Aknin <yaniv.aknin at gmail.com> added the comment:

I've zero experience with programming bluetooth (to be honest, I only tackled this bug because I'm learning how to contribute to Python and it seemed ultra-easy), so I'm not an authoritative source on whether such a 'loopback' test is possible.

On #bluez in freenode I was told that generally no, there is no 'localhost' for BT sockets, and that a while ago there was a bluetooth emulation tool called 'hciemu' which is no longer maintained.

I'm attaching the patch (it's just a oneliner), it passes regression though obviously isn't really tested by it... I suggest Mathew will try the patch out and see if it helps; we can decide how to proceed from there.

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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16799/zero_l2cap_addr_struct.diff

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