UNIX socket for communication python - C++

Question

I am trying to communicate between python and C++ via UNIX socket in Windows 10 64bit.
According to the documentation, to use UNIX sockets I need to set the family as AF_UNIX instead of AF_INET , and create a temporary local socket. This seems to be possible in Windows since last year, but I haven't found a clear explanation on how to do it.
I currently have this setting:

Server python

HOST = '127.0.0.1'  
PORT = 5555    
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
    s.bind((HOST, PORT))
    s.listen()
    conn, addr = s.accept()
    with conn:
        # Do something with recv(), send()
        ....

Client C++

WSADATA WSAData;
SOCKET server;
SOCKADDR_IN addr;

WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,0), &WSAData);
server = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);   
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1"); 
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(5555);
connect(server, (SOCKADDR *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
// Do something with recv(), send()

Since this communication is pretty slow for my purpose, I want to do the same but using a UNIX socket. How can I do that? Thanks

Answer 1

For C++ you might want to refer to examples in this post .

For Python it is unsupported yet as of writing. See bpo-33408 .