Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We can use a third-party library, netifaces, to find out if there is IPv6 support on your machine. We can call the interfaces() function from this library to list all interfaces present in the system.

Listing 3.10 shows the Python IPv6 support checker, 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. # This program depends on Python module netifaces => 0.8 import socket import argparse import netifaces as ni def inspect_ipv6_support(): """ Find the ipv6 address""" print ("IPV6 support built into Python: %s" %socket.has_ipv6) ipv6_addr = {} for interface ...