Python 2 and IPv6

I'm trying to enable IPv6 in a Python 2 application and am running into trouble. Whenever I try to bind to an IPv6 socket, a `socket.error: getsockaddrarg: bad family` exception is thrown. I can reproduce the error simply by doing: ``` import socket s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind(('', 12345)) ``` This code works fine if I run in Python 3. Unfortunately the script would need a significant porting effort to work in Python 3 and I'd rather not have to do that yet. Is there something I need to do to get IPv6 working in Python 2 or am I S-O-L? Details: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Oct 24 2009, 03:16:31) [GCC 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]] on linux2 (it's the Python that's part of the standard openSUSE 11.2 install). Update After AndiDog helped me figure out that socket.AF_INET6 is defined even when IPv6 is not configured, I discovered `socket.has_ipv6`. This is defined as a boolean and indicates whether Python was build with IPv6.