> Which specific information in that man page contradicts what I wrote? We can agree that the mentioned IP addresses are distinct. But the corresponding functionality should be equivalent.
> If you think of > > | IPv4 connections can be handled with the v6 API by using the > | v4-mapped-on-v6 address type; thus a program needs to support only > | this API type to support both protocols. > > please note that 127.0.0.1 mapped to IPv6 is ::7f00:1, not ::1. I find another information like “This is handled transparently by the address handling functions in the C library.” also interesting. > So you still need to bind to two addresses. I am unsure about this conclusion. Under which circumstances will the Python programming interfaces support the direct usage of the identification “::1”? Regards, Markus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
