Function getaddrinfo

Lib/socket.py:975–997

Resolve host and port into list of address info entries. Translate the host/port argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain all the necessary arguments for creating a socket connected to that service. host is a domain name, a string representation of an IPv4/v6 address or Non

(host, port, family=0, type=0, proto=0, flags=0)

def getaddrinfo(host, port, family=0, type=0, proto=0, flags=0):
    """Resolve host and port into list of address info entries.

    Translate the host/port argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain
    all the necessary arguments for creating a socket connected to that service.
    host is a domain name, a string representation of an IPv4/v6 address or
    None. port is a string service name such as 'http', a numeric port number or
    None. By passing None as the value of host and port, you can pass NULL to
    the underlying C API.

    The family, type and proto arguments can be optionally specified in order to
    narrow the list of addresses returned. Passing zero as a value for each of
    these arguments selects the full range of results.
    """
    # We override this function since we want to translate the numeric family
    # and socket type values to enum constants.
    addrlist = []
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
        af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
        addrlist.append((_intenum_converter(af, AddressFamily),
                         _intenum_converter(socktype, SocketKind),
                         proto, canonname, sa))
    return addrlist