While the 3.7+ getaddrinfo isn't the best human representation of an IPv6 address, I believe it does make the most sense to keep it that way. In any case, this is a regression and changing return values of getaddrinfo for 3.7 isn't something that should be considered. The issue stems from the refactoring of the underlying socketmodule.c handling of IPv4/IPv6 addresses with dedicated make_ipv4_addr and make_ipv6_addr functions which returns proper tuples of: str/int for IPv4: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/socketmodule.c#L1270 str/int/int/int for IPv6: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/socketmodule.c#L1325 The actual issue is that _ensure_resolved naively assumes IPv4 and truncates the address to its first 2 members https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py#L1269 and never redefines them again in the case where they were set. I'd suggest passing the remaining elements of address in a packed *args or an optional flowinfo=0, scopeid=0 to _ipaddr_info since fundamentally, that's the method stripping valuable information.