Determine socket family at runtime

[Wojciech Walczak]

2008/5/4, Giampaolo Rodola' <gnewsg at gmail.com>:
>  For now I've been able to determine the family by using:
>
>  # self.socket = a connected socket.socket instance
>  ip, port = self.socket.getsockname()[0:2]
>  af = socket.getaddrinfo(ip, port)[0][0]
>
>  ...but I'd like to know if some other solution is preferable.

Nope, there is none. Using getaddrinfo() to check address family
is the de facto standard.

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Wojtek Walczak
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