i75w_rp2350-v0.0.5 missing socket.inet_pton

[sjlongland]

Hi,

I'm just experimenting with the stock firmware to make a remotely controlled network display. My plan is to have the device listen on a multicast group for UDP traffic and just send the text to be displayed to the group.

Means I don't have to set up IP addresses, they just have a configured UDP multicast group defined and just use that. I note the MicroPython build here is even dual-stack, so linked-local IPv6 multicast seems like the simple way forward.

I couldn't find any MicroPython-specific guides, but the API seems to suggest the standard Python library methods work. Digging around, I found this example:

https://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Demo/sockets/mcast.py

So tried applying that to MicroPython after getting a unicast proof-of-concept working. I came unstuck because of this function:
https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/socket.html#socket.inet_pton

MicroPython master,   on 2025-01-31; Interstate 75 W with RP2350
Type "help()" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.version
'3.4.0; MicroPython master,   on 2025-01-31'
>>> import socket
>>> socket.inet_pton
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'inet_pton'

The firmware image I used is this one (downloaded from the releases page yesterday):

4e78e0a8277a30b34a63c47c55b00df64846b5e21d90556943c7e4ec4ae357d3  /tmp/i75w_rp2350-v0.0.5-micropython-with-filesystem.uf2

Is there something I've missed in the documentation?