def _has_ipv6(host: str) -> bool:
    """Returns True if the system can bind an IPv6 address."""
    sock = None
    has_ipv6 = False

    if socket.has_ipv6:
        # has_ipv6 returns true if cPython was compiled with IPv6 support.
        # It does not tell us if the system has IPv6 support enabled. To
        # determine that we must bind to an IPv6 address.
        # https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/611
        # https://bugs.python.org/issue658327
        try:
            sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6)
            sock.bind((host, 0))
            has_ipv6 = _resolves_to_ipv6("localhost")
        except Exception:
            pass

    if sock:
        sock.close()
    return has_ipv6
Returns True if the system can bind an IPv6 address.
dummyserver/socketserver.py