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

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:31:34 +1200 (NZST)

Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>:

The idea of either suppressing DNS lookups for all-numeric addresses, or some sort of extended API for suppressing DNS lookups might be better, but really, isn't this the job of the stub resolver?

Seems to me the basic problem is that we're representing to completely different things -- a DNS name and a raw IP address -- the same way, i.e. as a string.

A raw IP address should (at least optionally) be represented by something different, such as a tuple of ints.

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