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Author mhils
Recipients christian.heimes, mhils, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2017-02-09.18:27:42
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The latest Windows builds for Python 3.5.3/3.6.0 do not export socket.IPPROTO_IPV6, even though e.g. socket.IPV6_V6ONLY is exported. This seems to be wrong to me as IPV6_V6ONLY requires the corresponding socket option level IPPROTO_IPV6 to be actually useful. The same issue at least also applies to IPPROTO_IPV4.

christian.heimes mentioned that this is intended behaviour in https://bugs.python.org/issue6926 as Windows would not define the constants. Now I am all but an expert on this, but it seems to me that IPPROTO_IPV6 is defined in Windows:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff543746(v=vs.85).aspx. Apologies if I'm missing something here.

Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 07:18:10) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>>> import socket; socket.IPPROTO_IPV6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'IPPROTO_IPV6'

As a workaround, IPPROTO_IPV6 can be substituted with the hardcoded constant 41.
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