socket_getaddrinfo_extra_args.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann.  All rights reserved.
#
"""Get address info for a service
"""

#end_pymotw_header
import socket


def get_constants(prefix):
    """Create a dictionary mapping socket module
    constants to their names.
    """
    return {
        getattr(socket, n): n
        for n in dir(socket)
        if n.startswith(prefix)
    }


families = get_constants('AF_')
types = get_constants('SOCK_')
protocols = get_constants('IPPROTO_')

responses = socket.getaddrinfo(
    host='www.python.org',
    port='http',
    family=socket.AF_INET,
    type=socket.SOCK_STREAM,
    proto=socket.IPPROTO_TCP,
    flags=socket.AI_CANONNAME,
)

for response in responses:
    # Unpack the response tuple
    family, socktype, proto, canonname, sockaddr = response

    print('Family        :', families[family])
    print('Type          :', types[socktype])
    print('Protocol      :', protocols[proto])
    print('Canonical name:', canonname)
    print('Socket address:', sockaddr)
    print()