Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We use the same approach as writing an echo client/server using IPv6. The only major difference is how the socket is created using IPv6 information.

Listing 12a shows an IPv6 echo server, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 3 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse import socket import sys HOST = 'localhost' def echo_server(port, host=HOST): """Echo server using IPv6 """ for result in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE): af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = result try: sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto) ...