I’m using an Arch Linux machine and trying to run the following code from a Python file.

socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

and it keeps telling me that

AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'AF_UNIX'

Things tried

• Some posts claim this error occurs on Windows but obviously that isn’t the case.
  • sys.platform prints linux
• Code works on my Mac which was running Python3.9
  • Downgraded from Python3.12 to Python3.9 on the Linux machine and still no luck
• socket.AF_INET has the same issue
• running python -c "import socket; socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM) returns the same error
• error when using system binary python, conda python and venv python
• running it in the interactive shell has no issue however.