[Python-Dev] _socket efficiencies ideas (original) (raw)

Sean Reifschneider jafo@tummy.com
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 08:48:04 -0600

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:51:26AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I didn't even know this, and I think it's bad style to use something that obscure

Perhaps... It's also bad style to break the obscure cases that are defined by the specifications... ;-)

(most people would probably guess that 127.1 means 0.0.127.1 or 127.1.0.0).

Yeah, unfortunately it's one of those cases that it doesn't really make sense until you actually know the padding happens, and then think about it... It really only makes sense to pad within the address because you are rarely going to have leading or trailing 0s in a network address. So, it pads before the trailing specified octet:

10.1 => 10.0.0.1 10.9.1 => 10.9.0.1

But since you seem to know about this stuff, perhaps you can submit a patch?

I've updated my local CVS repository, I'll see if I can get a change done on the airplane today.

Sean

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