[issue20215] Python2.7 socketserver can not listen IPv6 address

[dzyu]

New submission from dzyu:

I see, in python 2.7, in SocketServer.py the TCPServer implementation is hard-coded to use ipv4, can not handle IPv6 case. it hard-coded set address_family as socket.AF_INET. so when binding IPv6 host, it will throw "gaierror: [Errno -9] Address family for hostname not supported".

The code should to judge the provided host is IPv4 or IPv6, and base on the host type to set address_family as socket.AF_INET or  socket.AF_INET6

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 207818
nosy: dazhaoyu
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python2.7 socketserver can not listen IPv6 address
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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