>>> import socket
>>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
>>> s.getsockname()
b''
>>> s.bind('foo')
>>> s.getsockname()
'foo'

The change was introduced here:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b10c71daa2099c450101e5854fd693a405bec49c

Amusingly, binding to the empty string produces something different:

>>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
>>> s.getsockname()
b''
>>> s.bind(b'')
>>> s.getsockname()
b'\x000005d'

while binding to the nul byte string produces the expected result:

>>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
>>> s.bind(b'\x00')
>>> s.getsockname()
b'\x00'

New changeset 495b5021e73e3c4b6404417ecf4fa83aa10297f0 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'master':
bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux (#1370)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/495b5021e73e3c4b6404417ecf4fa83aa10297f0

Thanks.

Test fails on  x86 Tiger 3.x:

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Tiger%203.x/builds/600/steps/test/logs/stdio

======================================================================
FAIL: testUnbound (test.test_socket.TestUnixDomain)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/db3l/buildarea/3.x.bolen-tiger/build/Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 4687, in testUnbound
    self.assertEqual(self.sock.getsockname(), '')
AssertionError: None != ''

Maybe restrict the unit test to Linux since the change was specific to Linux?

Oh, yuck.

> Maybe restrict the unit test to Linux since the change was specific to Linux?

That sounds reasonable.  I didn't know getsockname() could return None...

> I didn't know getsockname() could return None...

Me neither. Maybe it's a bug? makesockaddr() returns None if addrlen equals 0:                                   
             
    if (addrlen == 0) {                                                           
        /* No address -- may be recvfrom() from known socket */                   
        Py_RETURN_NONE;                                                           
    }

New changeset 0c2ff0898db2db9cd9c643dfadbff11761bacf5f by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.6':
Backport bpo-30205 to 3.6 (#1403)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0c2ff0898db2db9cd9c643dfadbff11761bacf5f

New changeset 0d9d61828bbd6cbc289489bf1d439fa91eca3743 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.5':
Backport bpo-30205 to 3.5 (#1404)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0d9d61828bbd6cbc289489bf1d439fa91eca3743