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

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter anthony@interlink.com.au
Fri, 02 May 2003 18:20:17 +1000

Guido van Rossum wrote Hey, I just figured it out. The old socket module (Python 2.1 and before) did special-case \d+.\d+.\d+.\d+! This code was somehow lost when the IPv6 support was added. I propose to put it back in, at least for IPv4 (AFINET). Patch anyone?

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=731209&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Unfortunately the code still goes through the idna encoding module - this is some overhead that it would be nice to avoid for all-numeric addresses.

Anthony