IPv6 Bugs du Jour: Python and OS X

I had to update a Python script early this morning. Being the anal-retentive perfectionist that I am, I took this an an excuse to an an informal audit of the Python networking library for IPv6-support. I was pleasantly surprised: Most of their networking library is v6-capable. Specifically, the libraries for sockets, http, smtp, xmlrpc, ftp, telnet, pop, and url parsing support IPv6. My findings are in the ITS Wiki.

A few libraries didn't fare so well. I filed bug 1655: imaplib is not IPv6-capable. I still need to file bugs on nntplib and SMTPServer.

I also filed another Mac OS X bug, 5653899 openssl s_client/s_server are not IPv6-capable.